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Re: Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?
We should be clear about different kinds of metrics. Lots of things will change over the course of a design, as you say, but scaling everything relative to the UPM is best avoided if at all possible,…1 -
Re: Basic rules for bearing
BTW, in the case of an M with traditional stroke modulation, so a thinner stem on the left side and a thicker one on the right, I find that the sidebearings should not be symmetrical, but should be s…3 -
Re: Where do you put the circumflex in /hcircumflex, and caron in /kcaron?
The h with circumflex is peculiar to Esperanto, and as I recall Esperantists prefer it with the mark optically centered on the full width of the letter, rather than above the stem.1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
The ɛ experiment results are pretty good. Idiomatically, the middle bit is wrong in all but the second Almendra Bold result—in a Bodoni, it would be more typical with the strokes knotted in the middl…2 -
Re: Converting Obscure Font Format into TTF
For the record, this is one of my favourite threads in the history of TypeDrawers.6
