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Re: What's the rectangle surrounding a font glyph, including its sidebearings, called?
Yes, the extrema recommendation is partly to enable this quick and easy calculation of an accurate bounding box, but the other important reason for it has been hinting.1 -
Re: Kern On—Semi Automated Kerning Plugin for Glyphs
Remarkably little time. I recently kerned an Ethiopic font (using a test build of KO, the release version doesn’t support Ethiopic yet), and I was able to define about 100 model pairs in about half a…5 -
Re: Kern On pair and word lists
You don’t really need a shared list. You always start Kern On by defining a minimum of ten pairs that do not need any kerning, so typically HH HO OH OO etc. for Latin. Then Kern On starts suggesting …4 -
Re: What's the rectangle surrounding a font glyph, including its sidebearings, called?
@"K Pease" In a key and specific sense, body height works exactly the same way in metal type and digital type, in that it is the height of the body that equals the nominal size of the type.…3 -
Re: The (real) size of a typeface
If a typeface possesses any fine details, these are naturally going to be more apparent at larger sizes. Type designers may play with this, and deliberately include details that they know will be inv…2
