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Re: Cross-script OpenType feature?
Shaping engines segment text strings based on Unicode script property, so the Latin and Greek glyph end up in separate glyph runs. This means that they're never processed together, and hence any look…5 -
Re: Mixing and matching italic and roman shapes in cyrillic fonts
It seems to me that a Cyrillic version of Helvetica should be able to function in all the ways and places that the Latin Helvetica does. That precludes using it as an exercise in experimentation, sin…2 -
Re: Mixing and matching italic and roman shapes in cyrillic fonts
You could put these variants in a stylistic set, but if wanted as default forms in Bulgarian language text, you should also map them in the <locl> feature for BGR language system tag.1 -
Re: Mixing and matching italic and roman shapes in cyrillic fonts
I am familiar with both. The fact remains that these forms are not the norm in upright text faces anywhere but Bulgaria. Yes, they exist in a broader Cyrillic context, but they are not the normal for…2 -
Re: Darden Studio launches full testing fonts
Very interesting. Please report back on how the experiment turns out.2
