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Re: What could be an effective strategy for handling frac/tions in OpenType fonts?
What you describe, Erwin, is typesetting. A font should provide a typesetter with tools to do the job, but shouldn’t always try to automate that job at the glyph processing level, because the typeset…4 -
Re: Asking for free fonts on Type Drawers
Maybe simply discourage font recommendation requests in general, as with font ID requests?2 -
Re: ChatGPT 4o has much better type design and typography output
This is actual wisdom.5 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
From conversations at ATypI and TypeCon, I think a lot of us presumed this was coming, and that the push to acquire of other foundries’ font IP was to get as many notional assets onto the books befor…8 -
Re: Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?
@"Igor Freiberger" Relatively few natural language orthographies involve diacritic marks over the ascender height or below the descender depth, and what you propose would make the letters u…1
