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Re: A rationale for this replacement of /gamma?
This would be a nice stylistic set or in the IPPH and APPH locl features but shouldn’t be in Latin default’s locl feature.1 -
Re: Eau de Garamond — a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond
There’s no reason it should be. See https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/name.htm, for name ID 16: and for name ID 17:1 -
Re: Minion Pro Phonetic
Times New Roman is a good start, but not that good. You can’t seriously use it in many cases. For exemple it’s not good for noting prosody since ‖ and | have different length when they should have th…3 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
The Dutch still use the florin symbol ƒ as a currency symbol in documents mentioning money before the introduction of the euro. In Togo, the same character is used as a letter Ƒ/ƒ in the orthography …4 -
Re: Is there a need for a TTF version?
Harfbuzz is a shaping engine. FreeType is a rasterizer and autohinter. FreeType recently started using Harfbuzz to help guess glyph category when autohinting, Harfbuzz does not require FreeType but c…2
