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Re: Liga substitution (non-script sensitive)
Setting your alternate up as a positional alternate with opentype ignore sub statements might avoid the trouble with the space you're having. It will also enable the substitution when the word wraps …1 -
Re: Projects Google Fonts ought to fund in 2023?
In case it's of interest, my TypeWknd talk "Baselines are Overrated" discusses my experimentation along these lines. It involved a serifless design with all sorts of different glyph height…4 -
Re: Sans serif display fonts theory
My intuition says that low-contrast/monoline sans styles work best at a middle size range: as you get into smaller text sizes, you need some contrast to keep it legible; and as you get into larger di…1 -
Re: Ultramodernity & Hypermodernity in Typeface Design
As for your new terms, I follow the distinction you're describing, but I'm not sure "ultra-" and "hyper-" are distinct enough for the labels to stick. They both seem to mean "…1 -
Re: Ultramodernity & Hypermodernity in Typeface Design
On that last point, I think the British Standards categorization (1967) may have been a key point in the English language for thinking of Futura's categorization under the "geometric" label…2
