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Re: manual hintig necessary?
If AI hinting is that good, it should likely be done by the rendering device or layout app—after all, that is where Adobe’s “optical kerning” takes place, not in the font.1 -
Re: manual hintig necessary?
The only manual hinting I do is in PostScript—I find that auto-hinting of the letter “i” (and j) in some typefaces, at some weights, causes the stem of the letter to be thickened to the width of the …2 -
Re: Forced discretionary ligatures
@"Ray Larabie" In InDesign, at least, which is what I always check my fonts in.1 -
Re: germandbls monowidth small cap
@"John Hudson" @"Johannes Neumeier" I’ve done that before (in Panoptica, an experimental monowidth+unicase design), for the fi and fl ligature characters, but the problem is that …3 -
Re: Forced discretionary ligatures
I use <rlig> for the pseudo-random effect, because it continues to function beyond the narrow range of tracking observed by , <calt> and <dlig>.3
