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Re: A Spectre Haunts Photoshop: Adobe Fontphoria
This kind of tool could be useful for type designers even if it cannot design a whole font based on a small handful of letters. Still, there are certain rather dumb tasks we do a lot of the time: cre… (View Post)3 -
Re: A Spectre Haunts Photoshop: Adobe Fontphoria
Is this working for lowercase as well, or is it uppercase only? The instructions on GitHub mention a data file “Capitals64”. My guess is that it is no coincidence we have not seen lowercase samples. … (View Post)3 -
Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
Thanks for your detailed explanation, John. Trying to summarize: • We only have a meaningful reduction in data size (compared to single-style fonts) if there are more styles used than the number of m… (View Post)2 -
Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
I like the idea of reducing the file size. If we really take this issue seriously then some questions arise: • From which number of used instances are variable fonts more size-efficient than single s… (View Post)1 -
Re: UPM in a family with web fonts.
I have worked with all kinds of UPMs for TT-based webfonts and never experienced or heard of any problems. Having a greater UPM for the TT fonts gives you a more precise curve conversion, though. I w… (View Post)1