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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: …1 -
Re: little scripting help required
I have found copying and pasting kerning between fonts in FontLab 8 to be reliable. So you might simply be able to copy entries from the Kerning panel in the source font with renamed glyphs, and then…1 -
Re: How does Unicode work?
I think you are reading a lot into what I wrote, and overlooked the tense: may have been used. Pushback on encoding tends to arise regarding historical characters, more from ignorance than discrimina…1 -
Re: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future?
There’s a web version of Fontspector that is probably the easiest way to work with it. If you want to install it locally, you can either grab binaries from the project release page or install using c…3 -
Re: font fragility and mid-word styling
Yes, I would agree with that statement. There are places in Unicode where the encoding choice puts too heavy a burden on glyph processing to resolve correct display of text (Mongolian is, to my mind,…1
