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Re: Excluding Small Caps from Ligatures
Layout engines process features in blocks, the specifics of which depend on the shaping model used for the glyph run as itemised according to Unicode script properties.* So, for example, the features…3 -
Re: Excluding Small Caps from Ligatures
In this case, it is lookup order that matters. The liga and smcp features are applied simultaneously by layout engines, so what affects the outcome is the ordering of the lookups associated with the …3 -
Re: PS hinting and overshoot
CFF is a compression format for outline data that could also be encoded as Type 1 data, which was a font-specific subset of the PostScript layout language, But my understanding from Adobe engineers i…4 -
Re: Sans
It’s difficult to judge a typeface intended for branding without knowing who the client is, how the typeface will be deployed, and factors such as the client name, current or planned taglines, coordi…2 -
Re: AI and the type industry, article.
That barrier has already been broken in several ways by digital typography, so that is not what I am saying—and not what I wrote. I said that I prefer ‘may be’ to ‘will be’ when talking about specifi…5
