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Re: Artificial Intelligence generated letters
The combination of improvements in AI learning and image processing is impressive, but fundamentally it is remixing of images that already exist and that the AI has learned to associate with text cue…11 -
Re: Can you do reorder to the glyphs and apply ligature after that?
A typical procedure for skipping a glyph like this would be to categorise the /uni103B/ glyph as a mark in the font’s GDEF table, and then to filter all marks out of your ligature lookup processing b…1 -
Re: Problem with Arabic ligatures in MS Word 2019
No, he did mean ZWJ. In Arabic, ZWNJ between normally joining letters will force their disconnected (isol, fina, init) forms. ZWJ will allow the standard joining forms but will interrupt ligature for…1 -
Re: Problem with Arabic ligatures in MS Word 2019
There are two aspects to this: 1. How a font maker assigns individual ligatures to different OpenType Layout features: rlig, liga, dlig, and clig. 2. How an application interacts with the shaping eng…1 -
Re: Type design hot takes
This week, I have been reading a book set in Adobe Caslon and it reminded me that the problem I have with the Th ligature is not its existence but that it is too tightly compressed horizontally: the …4
