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Re: Does one kern a duplex font?
Identical kerning should be shared among the duplex/multiplex/uniwidth weights. Martin Majoor’s Comma Base and Nick Sherman’s HEX Franklin have identical kerning across their entire weight range, res…6 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
Dave is not the first one in this forum who used the word “cartel”. The discussions here walk a fine line. I find the idea of excluding designers who take “big company” commissions startling. So many…5 -
Re: Metric and em size
Going all the way down to machine-level binary arithmetic, a UPM that is a power of 2 indeed makes the scaling operation faster. Say, you have a glyph that is 967=(1,111,000,111)₂ units wide, and a U…3 -
Re: Metric and em size
2048 and 4096 may feel not being rounded, simply because you’re more familiar with base-10 counting; they are perfectly “rounded” in binary (base-2), as 2048=2¹¹ and 4096=2¹². Incidentally, 16,384=2…4 -
Re: Design differences between text font and math font
As I recall, only large operators and variable delimiters are shifted by the math layout engine (TeX calls these extensible symbols), so their vertical position in the font can be arbitrary—the math…2
