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Re: IPA: Best practice?
GlyphsData.xml files are great if you want to reuse your custom glyph definitions. For one-off projects, you can set any glyph to be a non-spacing mark by selecting it in Font View and adjusting its …2 -
Re: IPA: Best practice?
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…1 -
Re: germandbls monowidth small cap
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…7 -
Re: PS hinting and overshoot
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…1 -
Re: Serif typefaces that work well in dark mode
If you have a variable font with a grade (or maybe weight) axis, you could tune it slightly to better fit the inverse display mode.5
