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Re: Bearing and kerning
Honestly, I would not have chosen Garamond Premier Pro as an exemplar to learn contemporary practices from. I respect Rob Slimbach’s work greatly. But, as something of an historic homage, Garamond Pr…2 -
Re: Can tabular numbers be a default set?
I wouldn’t say “most,” these days. There are some. The practice is certainly not unprecedented. I think most of those that you will find with default tabular figures derive from or inherit from fonts…2 -
Re: Logic and the order in kerning tables
If you are interested in designing fonts, then you should probably seek a tool that allows you to design kerning in a user interface and then manages the tables for you upon compilation. I imagine th…5 -
Re: Ring and acute over an A
I suspect that the Aringacute/aringacute crept into so many extended Latin character sets because Microsoft chose to include it in their WGL4 character set, which many folks subsequently followed bli…6 -
Re: Apostrophe kerning by contextual lookup table
The apostrophe should be fitted (i.e., sidebearings) to look appropriate between two straight-sided letters. Then, kern pair exceptions should be added to make it look appropriate in relation to othe…5
