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Re: External tool for stem weight measurement of font families?
Ah, yes, that was at least one of the tools I had in mind. XOPQ is the stroke thickness of thick stems (in a western font, that would normally be vertical stems, which are measured in the X direction…1 -
Re: External tool for stem weight measurement of font families?
IIRC, either Simon Cozens or Yanone has done some open source and probably command-line tool for this. Just busy with TypeCon at the moment or I would hunt it down....1 -
Re: Quality of webfonts, esp. on Windows
For extra fun, at all even vaguely normal sizes, Apple completely ignores the hinting info in the fonts.1 -
Re: Quality of webfonts, esp. on Windows
Windows has like three or four different rendering modes, depending on your OS version and which API the app uses. These days the great majority of Windows apps are getting DirectWrite rendering (som…2 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
If metrics were protected IP, I would be curious to understand how the font-fauxing behavior of Acrobat (used when fonts are not embedded) was not legally problematic. Among other things.6
