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Re: Bad news for Clearview
Chris, Scott-Martin, Spacing in road signs tends to be quire variable, in my experience. My assumption is that the specs for the signs allow certain tolerances for tighter spacing before the size of …3 -
Re: The Terms "Glyph List" versus "Character Set"
It's not entirely fixable, because PDFs can still be made by distilling from a print stream so this situation can still occur, even though other methods of PDF creation — which write character string…2 -
Re: What are the best practices for the hist feature (long s)?
It's not for anything, which is why so few fonts implement it. Like quite a few of the OTL features that were registered in the early days, the {hist} feature was speculative. Adobe thought it would …2 -
Re: It's not a perfect ellipse, why?
I don't know what the method was for creating that particular letter, but it isn't unusual to start with a basic ellipse (not necessarily a circle) and then edit the nodes and handles to get it to lo…2 -
Re: What are the best practices for the hist feature (long s)?
What James said: the long s is a distinct orthographic character, not simply a variant of the common s, with varying conventions in different languages and periods. It's use is akin to that of the ß …2
