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Re: Exporting fea file
SIL’s FontUtils has a ‘volt2fea’ command line tool, no idea how good is it though. FontTools has a ‘voltLib’ now, probably someone can write a feature file exporter on top of it, no idea how good is …1 -
Re: Open sourcing VTT
FreeType has different rendering modes, some of them ignore font hinting completely (with or without auto-hinting) and I think that is what Android is using.1 -
Re: Double-width glyphs in monospace fonts
You can add width to glyphs using GPOS single adjustment as well, and that is a trick some monospace fonts do already to handle non-spacing marks while keeping all glyphs strictly mono width.6 -
Re: Kerning glyphs with negative sidebearings in initial/final position
I had similar issue with several Arabic letters, what I did is instead space the glyphs for line boundary situation, and kern them with other Arabic characters as needed. This is more cumbersome, but…3 -
Re: Font metrics settings for desktop and web fonts
Most type designers I know are making fonts that would not be functional with such compromise.1
