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Re: Font or Font Software
A font on a computer is a file containing a set of instructions that the CPU follows to draw and position a set of letters (and/or other glyphs and marks) on a screen, printout or other rendering sur…2 -
Re: Apple's ancient Macintosh Font Editor app
Heh, I did notice that a few years ago, and I did a brief double-take. Could be worse—be thankful you’re not confused with an Australian hippy dippy jam band.1 -
Re: Apple's ancient Macintosh Font Editor app
One could also go still further back, to 8-bit pre-Mac days at Apple, when the incomparable Beagle Bros offered the bitmap font editor in Apple Mechanic, Shape Mechanic and Font Mechanic. I had Shape…3 -
Re: Fonts with capital letters slightly less than full height
Don’t forget Amstelvar with variable ascenders, descenders and cap height.1 -
Re: Forced discretionary ligatures
IMO historical ſi ligatures should be in normal liga next to fi and the like, and the ſ rules, whether implemented dumb or contextual, should be in the hist feature. Visually ſ is just an uncrossed o…4
