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- Time for a website for free font development?
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... repository. If there are multiple versions of the same glyph, it should present the variants to the user, and ask for a vote. To be ... rocks out for math is that it natively supports optical scaling, so subscripts and superscripts don't look spindly and anemic like they ...
Forum topic - raph - 6 Dec 2005 - 4:29pm - 30 comments - 0 attachments
- Spiro 0.01 release
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... I have to do this by trial and error, both to see how the glyph works with the rest of the face, to find a 'sweet' curve, and to see how ... Type 1. Of course, Euler doesn't have any of the optical scaling or variation features either. @clauses: The real power of Spiro ...
Forum topic - raph - 9 May 2007 - 7:19am - 142 comments - 0 attachments
- Faithful revivals from early printed pages
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... printing. Perhaps you could start with an idealized glyph -- clean, sharp and simple outline -- then apply a "letterpress" filter ... others can use for such a purpose--you will be faced with scaling issues. Thanks for your Thanks for your amplifications William. ...
Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:58am - 179 comments - 0 attachments
- OpenType smallcaps in a separate font?
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... capital letters. They’re "smaller" not by mere geometric scaling, but they’re "typographically smaller". Just like you can either put ... italics should be a separate font is that in general every glyph has a counterpart in the other font. Therefore we can consider the ...
Forum topic - twardoch - 21 Mar 2007 - 6:21pm - 47 comments - 0 attachments
- Stylistic Alternatives - Indesign ?
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... or instead of a slashed zero, a different form of the zero glyph (clearly distinct from "O" but not necessarily using a slash) might get ... between titling and a display/size-specific ("optical scaling") font? Surely typographers should have access to (almost) all ...
Forum topic - RachelR - 20 Mar 2007 - 8:26am - 92 comments - 0 attachments
- Fontographer Vs. Fontlab...
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... my familiarity with them), it involved moving each glyph outline between Illustrator 8, Illustrator CS, FontLab, and Fog. Talk ... a couple of tools there which should make the process of scaling and positioning much easier than they normally would be in CorelDraw. I ...
Forum topic - rootedideas - 18 Apr 2005 - 5:02am - 62 comments - 0 attachments
- Survey: justified or rag-right?
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... Here's hoping for better justification controls such as glyph scaling in future implementations of CSS. >Scripts, whether formal or ...
Forum topic - Palatine - 22 Nov 2005 - 3:13pm - 188 comments - 0 attachments
- UPM value of 1000 set in stone?
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... UPM size is 2,000 and the user chooses 10 pt type, any glyph that will be 1,000 units high in your font will be exactly 5 pt high in ... 10,000) might cause problems at geometric transformations (scaling, rotating etc.). You can observe the effect easily if you scale ...
Forum topic - truecolors - 26 Feb 2008 - 7:55am - 30 comments - 0 attachments
- Critiques of the OpenType format?
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... , "Increased expectations & OT font glyph sets" at ... 'calt' feature, because there are some cross-stylistic-set glyph combinations that could occur that are simply incorrect, ugly and ... else you can do to them in combination with x-y movement, scaling, rotation, location in variation space and hints, all at your disposal ...
Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 11:29am - 111 comments - 0 attachments
- Carol Twombly.. Please help me!
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... TM 4/1995 (4 pages, 2 of them with a great showing of the glyph set). Unfortunately, I still don't have the Untersuchungen zur ... revival of Caslon in MM, which naturally includes optical scaling - especially in things like the italic "Q": ... the only person who thinks that the use of Tab in the Flab glyph window when nothing is selected -- turning on and off the rudimentary and ...
Forum topic - softbluecries1 - 30 Mar 2007 - 8:13am - 244 comments - 0 attachments
