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Re: 6 different widths – not displayed by order
It is a choice how you think of your family and, hence, how you name the fonts, but personally I think of width variation as a higher level style grouping than weight because regular-to-bold weight m…3 -
Re: 6 different widths – not displayed by order
I’m unsure how to interpret that statement, and in the internal design units of the typeface you can set the axis scale however you want, but the wdth axis scale as specified in the OT spec indicates…3 -
Re: Should I include small caps etc. in an authentic italic font revival?
Maybe if you wanted a contrastive use between it and ? uni003F, but frankly this is just a glyph variant question mark, and I don’t think the case was well made for its inclusion in Unicode as a sepa…2 -
Re: zerowidthjoiner (ZWJ) not working on older versions of InDesign
The old Adobe Indic shaping engine had multiple issues and inconsistencies with other shaping engines. That is one of the reasons Adobe abandoned it and now use a wrapped HarfBuzz implementation. How…2 -
Re: Is there a standard way (a symbol or icon) to indicate that a font is variable?
There’s no standard. This is what we use on the Tiro site: the icon for the individual font package with a VF label and a little slider graphic underneath.4
