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Re: Maintaining Contrast and Weight across Upright and Italics
In a higher contrast, serif design, I usually compensate only in the ‘vertical’ strokes of the italic, and keep the hairlines the same thickness as in the roman. As Michael notes, it it traditional f…3 -
Re: Opting out of the Universal Shaping Engine
That’s still not technically specifying shapers at the font level: rather it is supporting different shaping models and it is still up the the shaping engine to decide which to apply. HarfBuzz happen…2 -
Re: Opting out of the Universal Shaping Engine
Fonts do not specify shapers. Text path to shaping engine is not determined by either OTL script tag or Unicode block. It is determined by the Unicode script property for each character. So all chara…1 -
Re: Interesting kerning behavior in macOS applications
There are a few real world cases, mostly involving historical orthographies not in current use. Some of the Latin alphabets introduced for Turkic languages in the Soviet Union in the 1920s (and short…2 -
Re: Do we have Conditional Ligature feature only in certain conditions???
I mostly ignore clig and just put any contextual substitutions in either calt or rlig depending on whether I want the user to be able to disable the substitution or not.1
