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Re: Moderation Team Changes
I guess I'l need to be especially well-behaved now so that Paul doesn't face any conflict of interest in moderating me. :) Thank you to all the moderators, and also to all the participants who — as f… (View Post)3 -
Re: How to best give access to special characters in a font
(Quote) It would indeed be handy to be able to type e.g. ↗, but don't solve keyboard issues at the glyph processing level. When you type keys on a keyboard, you are inputting character codes, which a… (View Post)8 -
Re: The Future of Font Naming: is it still unethical to use the same font name?
1. Come up with great name for typeface. 2. Find that it's already used by some poor quality free font for which the name makes no sense. 3. Go away and release typeface under less good name. 4. Time… (View Post)2 -
Re: Two Discretionary Ligatures for the Same Letter Combo
A ligature substitution in OpenType Layout is a GSUB LookupType 4 (many-to-one). An alternate substitution is a GSUB LookupType 3 (one-to-one-of-many). So, no, you can't have alternate substitutions … (View Post)3 -
Re: Variants of the decimal point
I'd be cautious about relying on superscript styling to get an appropriate specific height and size of the period (full stop) dot. Some fonts are going to include a .sups variant of the period that w… (View Post)1