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Re: To become a type designer?
Nothing wrong with calligraphy courses or any other kind of lettering courses, so long as one develops an understanding of how typographic letters differ from written ones. This is mostly a matter of…2 -
Re: A new approach to spacing?
What I've hoped for, Simon, is something like this as an interface to an auto-spacing algorithm, in which the kind of adjustments you demonstrate here become constraints on the algorithm. Basica…4 -
Re: A new approach to spacing?
That's basically the approach I have taken when experimenting with DTL KernMaster; I ensure that the target kern list includes key pairs that establish my preferred spacing and which I would not…1 -
Re: A new approach to spacing?
This presumes that the person making the font lacks the experience and knowledge to be able to first set default spacing and then implement adjustment spacing in a way that minimises the latter. Defa…4 -
Re: Is one.osf.ss01 a valid glyph name?
Note that this is only true for PDFs that have been distilled from a print stream. PDF export tools write the Unicode character strings direct to the PDF; the glyph name parsing mechanism is used onl…1
