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Re: Dutch IJ with dots
Since f-ligatures are mostly a solution to a visual not phonological or linguistic problem, I never understood why it matters whether the i is a half vowel or belong to a different syllable, since th…2 -
Re: Web Fonts Guide
Re letter-spacing, I have to say that I’m yet to see a web page where letter spacing is used that does not make the text uncomfortable to read. I don’t claim to have a good eye for spacing (the only …1 -
Re: Space kerning and OpenType Layout
Having ink in the space glyph is a bad idea in general. Layout engines often replace control characters (e.g. ZWNJ, ZWJ, RLM, SHY, etc.) with space glyph and set its width to zero, so in such fonts y…1 -
Re: Any app that support OpenType "rand" feature?
@AbrahamLee the people might not care, but application developers do. For example many applications cache the shaping results per word, so they expect that a word appearing anywhere in the document w…2 -
Re: Any app that support OpenType "rand" feature?
The biggest issue preventing support for “rand” feature is, well, the randomness. Many implementations and applications need predictable results; if you give it the same text, font, and set of featur…4