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Re: OpenType SVG color fonts coming to Windows 10 :)
There are many historical typographic and pre-typographic practices where coloring parts of the text (often parts of the glyph) have some semantic significance, for example https://twitter.com/Khaled…7 -
Re: Webfont vertical metrics strategies
I think there are lots of legacy complications and superstition when it comes to vertical metrics. So the first question is what are the environments you are targeting and what kind of fonts you are …2 -
Re: /gbreve in current events
It is likely a mixture of both. Some fonts might not have this glyphs, or some websites might be using a limited glyph subset of the fonts to improve page load. That is one of the problems with web f…1 -
Re: Kashida-like function for other connecting scripts? (tracking/full-justification of scripts)
Kashida justification, as implemented in virtually all applications that support it, works by inserting kashida glyphs after OpenType layout with no re-layout, so there is no way the font can control…2 -
Re: Export old-style non-OpenType "kern" table
LibreOffice uses HarfBuzz on Linux and Core Text on Mac, so it supports OpenType kerning on both, as well as other default OpenType features. On Windows old releases used some ancient Windows APIs, b…3
