For the double-width marks, smart components help produce a set of different widths so they fit well over the base pair. I experimented with shifting them up/down by placing the base glyphs in height… (View Post)
I consider capitalizing ß as SS to be a hack. Text reads worse when a word is suddenly one character longer just because it’s capitalized. In signs/posters/slides/… made by non-typographers it’s comm… (View Post)
When talking about OpenType (OT) fonts, there are TrueType-based fonts (TT) and CFF-based fonts. CFF in turn is based on tech from PostScript (PS). By convention, OT-CFF font files use the file exten… (View Post)
Does your font contain any glyphs for characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane? That could be characters with a Unicode value greater than U+FFFF (which would be written with more than four di… (View Post)