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Re: History of Spurless Typefaces
I think Gustav Shroeder's Art Gothic from 1884 was probably influential. You know it from Murder She Wrote. It seems like the kind of thing that would have appeared on posters before it arrived …3 -
Re: [OTVar] Registered axes candidates
Maybe the names #ascender and #descender are misleading. If these axes are used for creating vertical clearance, there's no reason it couldn't be applied to accents or capital swash feature…2 -
Re: [OTVar] Defining instances in the font vs. defining instances in CSS
The marketplace will figure this out but I've been thinking about how OTvar could be sold alongside discrete styles. Say I have a 64 style superfamily where singles are $20. That's $1280 if…4 -
Re: Online shops and language
A possible solution to getting people to read a EULA is to not make them read it. Rather that trying to craft a visual guide or the ultimate explanation, we could present the user with an automated o…7 -
Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
Even italics with fundamentally different letter forms have a lot of symbols which are essentially oblique. Punctuation, math symbols. Could italics could be an axis with a mix of alternate forms and…2
