John Hudson

  • Re: Create metric-equivalent font

    Metrical equivalence is a technical workaround to text reflow in font fallback situations. Some of those font fallback situations have to do with licensing, i.e. to the unavailability in a particular…
  • Re: Glyphs Panel on Figma

    Adobe’s glyph palettes will still occasionally store GIDs. I’ve not taken the time to diagnose when this happens, but suspect there are limits to the parsing of OTL lookups, and can imagine that cont…
  • Re: Glyphs Panel on Figma

    This URL works: https://forum.figma.com/suggest-a-feature-11/glyphs-per-font-22915 Glyph panels are useful but need to be carefully implemented to maximise text interoperability. Inserting raw font g…
  • Re: Blatant rip-off: a story

    It’s important to let platforms know that you’re not okay with this kind of content and that it isn’t okay for it to be allowed to remain. Unfortunately, the nature of a lot of social content platfor…
  • Re: Blatant rip-off: a story

    I would definitely report it, but if you want to make a learning opportunity out of it, make a bunch of screenshots of the offending font on Behance beforehand, and then write up the whole thing some…
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