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Re: Help to make a connecting font
Another, editor-agnostic, resource that might help is the OpenType Cookbook, which tries to start explanation from scratch and eventually gets to word-boundary detection.1 -
Re: Critique my WIP Gayot-inspired display face (also, hello from a new member)
“Round” forms could be rounder, that is, you might shorten the straight segments in many of the curved strokes. That also might help smooth the straight-to-curved transitions. Maybe H and K should be…1 -
Re: Does anyone know who invented ink traps, or what year they were first used
I'd be curious about the history of the terminology here too: For some period, or in some circles, "inktrapping" referred to the problem of counters or crotches closing up, rather than to t…1 -
Re: Does anyone know who invented ink traps, or what year they were first used
Mostly you'd need to be looking at punches. Or some examples of master drawings for matrix manufacture. I was a little surprised to not see more inktrap examples in this Letterform Archive collection…1 -
Re: New WIP
Was thinking you could also add a tight pinch in the existing /g, perhaps here1
