... font” would be cool. That would use the OpenType contextual alternates feature to vary alternate glyphs for the same character, so it ...

Forum topic - Sebastian Nagel - 4 Mar 2008 - 4:47am - 48 comments - 2 attachments

... scripts which need full coverage to be workable. The contextual options and attention to diacritics help even more. You can ... occur while still allowing the user to turn off contextual alternates if this does not result in such combinations. As to whether ...

Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 12:29pm - 110 comments - 0 attachments

... has one alternate for each Uppercase charicter and three alternates for each lowercase charicter making 2 different glyph forms for the ... it relevant whether you pack the substitutions into the contextual alternates or the stylistic alternates feature? The more ...

Forum topic - scruggsdesign - 1 May 2006 - 10:07am - 18 comments - 0 attachments

Avant Garde Gotchic Book Alternates doesn’t have an SA ligature, so I’m looking at this. ... Gerald - Perhaps you’re looking only at the Alternates font. Here are the standard weights of Avant Garde Gothic . ... possibilities of the typeface for the first time with no contextual awareness of its orgin... perhaps to the effect of a horror show, or ...

Forum topic - pierattt - 16 Jan 2006 - 1:50pm - 54 comments - 0 attachments

... think you would be better off exploring the possibility of contextual alternates in an OpenType font, to capture the variety of impression, which is ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 10:58am - 163 comments - 0 attachments

... and the OpenType format. Start from scratch. Use contextual alternates at the level of sophistication created by Adam Twardoch in Zapfino ...

Forum topic - Nick Shinn - 14 Jul 2007 - 1:57pm - 25 comments - 0 attachments

Has anybody done this yet? Contextual replacement in OpenType using Kerning as the context. I would ... anybody have opinions about if it is better to code for contextual substitution in fontlab or with some 3rd part tool? ****** ... AbiWord The freeware AbiWord activates contextual alternates automatically in Windows XP Service Pack 2, once you go into ...

Forum topic - Eben Sorkin - 1 Nov 2005 - 8:36am - 89 comments - 1 attachment

... now in OpenType , was designed by Nick Shinn . Contextual alternates make Handsome have the random flavor of real writing. The weights ...

Wiki - dezcom - 26 Apr 2006 - 9:51am - 0 comments

... set :)” Sebilar, I am sure it would be a contextual substitution: if the temperature is below zero, sub Greenlandic:-) ... However, it should now be possible to employ contextual alternates in OT fonts to address fit-problem concentration. But not so ...

Forum topic - dezcom - 24 Apr 2006 - 11:48am - 70 comments - 0 attachments

... I’ve — perhaps naively — included some contextual alternates as part of my design. It seems like what I’m doing is by the ...

Forum topic - FeeltheKern - 25 Apr 2006 - 12:43am - 2 comments - 0 attachments