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Uh, that's not a post, that's

In reply to White space according to Gerrit Noordzij and my Thesis on street painting: Uh, that's not a post, that's a book. :-) A couple of possibly useful points though: - For scripts I have nativity...

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Okay, this should be fine

In reply to Open Type Kern feature for English and Bengali punctuation marks: Okay, this should be fine according to Adobe's standard font license, so long as you do not distribute the modified font in...

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Also written shorthand as

In reply to What does e.g. "<typeface name> 11 on 14" mean?: Also written shorthand as 11/14. David

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Short for 11 point type on 14

In reply to What does e.g. "<typeface name> 11 on 14" mean?: Short for 11 point type on 14 point body. From the days of metal type, you could cast a character at a certain size on a body (base)...

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Adobe -the gods bless them-

In reply to Open Type Kern feature for English and Bengali punctuation marks: Adobe -the gods bless them- actually even allows third-party modifications. Back in 2007, I was commissioned to add 20 new...

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Very nice - congrats! What

In reply to David Hadash: Definitive Version of David Hebrew Released by Monotype: Very nice - congrats! What would be a good Latin companion to David Hadash? hhp

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Excellent. Thanks guys.

In reply to What does e.g. "<typeface name> 11 on 14" mean?: Excellent. Thanks guys. This has been bugging me for a few weeks. I particularly appreciate Joshua's elaboration. Easier to understand...

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FontLab's Metrics panel also

In reply to Copy side bearings: FontLab's Metrics panel also has a feature to do this— while in Metrics mode, there's a down-arrow underneath the active glyph which reveals a menu with "Copy to...

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Mark told me via PM that he

In reply to Please identify this Lenovo ad campaign font: Mark told me via PM that he uses FF Good by Łukasz Dziedzic. Thanks, Mark, for the info.

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something like a minimum of

In reply to Resolution: what's reasonable?: something like a minimum of 20,000 dpi and an ideal of 50,000 I would say something is very wrong here indeed, because printing issues notwithstanding the...

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Use a font manager! I quite

In reply to Cleaning large font collection: Use a font manager! I quite like NexusFont.

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It’s Too Much Shadow.

In reply to Drop Shadow Fonts: It’s Too Much Shadow.

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The S is heavily drunk and

In reply to check out - Forum - free font: The S is heavily drunk and the R’s leg feels very stiff. M doesn’t stand comfortably either.

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@Birdseedling That is all the

In reply to Fairytale Style Font ID ???: @Birdseedling That is all the characters I found, b/c it was used as a Drop Cap in a layout. Plus I scoured the internet but I couldn't find anything close, and...

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@J Weltin - Thanks for

In reply to check out - Forum - free font: @J Weltin - Thanks for checking. "The S is heavily drunk" - I understand what you mean, it's not very stable... agree (( "the R’s leg feels very stiff" - I...

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In a similar

In reply to Fairytale Style Font ID ???: In a similar vein: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/intellecta/massel/

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I don't think this works,

In reply to Such medial Heh...: I don't think this works, Marcin -- your modified Scheherazade on the right -- because the effect seems to be of a letter sloppily written rather than a new form. In the...

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LOL

In reply to Turkey: a new symbol for the lira: LOL

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Andrij, are you selling many

In reply to me@creative characters: Andrij, are you selling many font licences in Cyrillic countries, or is the bulk of your retail font income from Latin script users?

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Gargoyle: that works out to a

In reply to Resolution: what's reasonable?: Gargoyle: that works out to a perfectly normal range of 140 ~ 225 dpi. Oof! First I thought I was mis-reading those numbers, then I thought I was lagging...

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