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Re: Freitag — toying around with a geometric display sans
Just to go back to the ascender+descender=upm. That is a recommendation and no technical requirement. I never saw a problem with a font that didn't follow it.2 -
Re: Specific diacritic designs depending on language
I wonder if the "national preference" for certain accents is caused by the preference for certain typefaces that happen to have certain accents and users get used to the style of that typef…6 -
Re: Multiple master/Designspace design workflow
I think that really depends on the design. For me it worked fine. There is no technical reason to have a “XXXNar Thin” (neither in a font editor nor in variation fonts. It can be extrapolated from th…1 -
Re: Multiple master/Designspace design workflow
I usually do only the extremes but thar doesn't mean that I don't design/draw the regular carefully. Just not by moving the handles directly but by adjusting the extremes. It is a bit like puppeteeri…1 -
Re: Multiple master/Designspace design workflow
If you need two or three masters on the weight axis depends on the design of the font. So you can try to us only two, interpolate the instances and see if you like the result. If not, you add add the…7
