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Re: Sharp S can appear at start of word
Franz, are you Austrian or German? In Austria, the voiced S tends to be less voiced than in most Germany*. I think it’s also the case in Switzerland. But in central and northern Germany, S is very cl…4 -
Re: Fontlab 7 - Windows reads exported font name differently
The recommendation not to put NID 16 is it were to be identical with NID 1 was done in early days of OpenType and I think was built into AFDKO. All Adobe fonts were made this way. But I never saw any…1 -
Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
> Once a consumer has paid good money for a font, the consumer should be able to use that font forever. They are able to use that font forever — in the apps and on the systems that the font suppor…13 -
Re: PixelFix
Looks to me like a specific DW-centric TTF VF hinting technique.4 -
On the use of blind texts
Most type designers often use “blind texts” — nonsensical pseudo-texts that just show different letter combinations in context — when testing the typeface they’re working on. The often-cited rational…3
