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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 -
Re: Polish: the ł_ł ligature revisited
How do your łł look like with no ligature at all? It looks like the most legible option (in other fonts) in my ignorant eyes and there is no clash to be fixed by a ligature.3