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Re: Hinting Variable Fonts
You can semi-autohint variable TTFs using VTT. You need to spend some time setting up variable CVT entries for the axis extrema [and intermediate delta sets], but you can autohint the default instanc…2 -
Re: Font revival from A to B
I have one piece of advice before starting work on a typeface revival: sit down and form a mental image of what you want a page of text set in the resulting type to look like. This will help you dete…6 -
Re: Type pricing and licensing: as a tool or material?
That may well be the case.1 -
Re: Type pricing and licensing: as a tool or material?
Hmm. My memory is that pre-2009 almost the entire Web was Verdana, and after 2009 Verdana was almost nowhere. The uptake of webfonts was incredibly rapid as soon as the format was agreed, and the for…5 -
Re: Happy 25th Birthday, OpenType (May 6)
The CFF format had been developed independently of OpenType, initially for embedded fonts. It used subroutines as part of its compression, so didn’t need or benefit from the composites model of TrueT…2
