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Re: Where should diacritics lie within vertical metrics?
In layout applications, the effect of the em square is primarily to determine how to scale glyphs. For example, if text is set to 12 points, then the em square is scaled to 12 points. The metrics use…3 -
Re: Color fonts nowadays
In case it's useful info: In an OpenType font, the COLR format relies on colour palettes defined in a CPAL table. The SVG format can make use of colour palettes defined in the CPAL table, or fix…3 -
Re: Can a newly designed script be owned/privatised/copyrighted?
This question is a bit similar to questions I've seen raised in other contexts: Should an ethnic community be able to limit knowledge of their language or ability to use it by people outside tha…2 -
Re: What is best practise in variable font development?
The masters you use in a design tool are one thing. How the data gets compiled into a font may be another—depending on how the tools go about generating the data. Some key things to understand about …4 -
Re: How to best give access to special characters in a font
A fundamental issue is the meaning of text and anticipated usage over its lifetime. On the one hand: Suppose you're an app developer and need to put some icon—depicting, say, a foobie (whatever)…6
