When we worked on monospace fonts for Microsoft, we were instructed to give the combining marks the standard mono width, and then to collapse that width to zero in GPOS. Some shaping engines will aut… (View Post)
Something like 99% of inscribed Latin lettering chiseled in stone is done with a v-cut, because it is both efficient and visually attractive, but it isn’t the only method. One sometimes encounters, f… (View Post)
Probably worth mentioning that disabling of these feature beyond a certain range of tracking is app-specific—notably in InDesign—and not part of a general OpenType Layout specification. (View Post)
Map the single lowercase ß to two smallcap S glyphs. There is no reason why the smallcap should be represented by a single SS glyph in all-caps or smallcaps. The standard German spelling rule—if the … (View Post)
I can certainly see that attraction. As someone who spends a lot of time updating and extending older fonts, I value all the more any time I get to spend on new things. Handing over older projects to… (View Post)