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Re: Font Licensing Rabbit Hole
Yes. The pre-processing of the font data as part of the WOFF2 compression is something other than simply zipping the data. I think the characterisation of WOFF2 as a 'font packaging format' is apt: i…1 -
Re: Font Licensing Rabbit Hole
WOFF is a wrapper and very much like zip; WOFF2 is a reformatting.3 -
Re: Don't font vertical metrics ever affect leading in InDesign?
It's not weird if you remember that InDesign is primarily a page layout program, so deals with typography in terms of type size and type leading (linespace height). Font metrics provide fallback line…4 -
Re: Join The Digital Currency Revolution: Custom Font for a Bitcoin Startup in Amsterdam:
Chiming in on the logo vs typeface aspect: Sometimes, a company will be interested in having their corporate branding incorporate a typeface that is also the basis of their logo or word mark, and the…2 -
Re: Variable Font Validation
Flipped and scaled composites were supposed to be technically okay in TrueType since the beginning, but in fact they tended to cause rendering problems, so I long ago made a point of only using compo…6
