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Re: Tips for Building a Thin Master from an Existing Black Weight
To confirm: you have only a Black weight? It is quite challenging to go all the way from Black to Thin without at least one intermediary master, especially if you want all the stages between them to …3 -
Re: Are these enough nodes to draw up an oval with just 2 points? Nothing to do with hinting
Ovals and circles are both kinds of ellipse. A circle is an ellipse in which all points along the circumfrence are equal distance from the centre. An oval is an eccentric ellipse in which the distanc…2 -
Re: Are these enough nodes to draw up an oval with just 2 points? Nothing to do with hinting
In what context are you asking the question? If this relates to font making, then I would ask what your two-node oval looks like when converted to quadratic curves? That’s always one of my thoughts w…5 -
Re: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future?
Again: there is a web interface. It is incredibly easy to use, and provides exactly the sort of functionality that a non-technical user would want. I can’t think of any compelling reason why I would …5 -
Re: Letters changing shape from upright → oblique
You can also specify this kind of axis location substitution directly in a .designspace file, which can be used alongside UFO files to build a variable font. The code would look something like this: …2
