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Re: What is the standard practice for naming instances with multiple styles?
Instance naming is fairly flexible, but I would recommend thinking in terms of a hierarchy of family, subfamily, and style linking. For historical reasons, style linking applies in a fairly limited …5 -
Re: Hebrew composition in ccmp
1. Yes, this is fairly typical in Hebrew fonts. You can also rely on GPOS anchor positioning rules to place the dagesh dot within the letter, but in some cases, e.g. shin+dagesh in heavier typeface d…2 -
Re: TrueType hinting in 2020
It may be worth noting that TT hinting is not one thing or one approach, but a set of tools that can be used in a number of different ways to affect rendering across a wide range of resolutions and r…2 -
Re: Follow these steps to create a CYRILLIC LETTER I WITH GRAVE in FontLab 8:
Characters like /grave (U+0060) are spacing characters, mostly inherited from legacy pre-Unicode character sets, although some of them are mapped to spacing modifier letters. These were used to build…3 -
Re: Would you recommend being a type designer?
With the caveat that, at least in terms of the Reading MATD programme, the content is strongly focused on type design, not font making, and in my experience graduates come out with minimal technical …4
