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I've played around with different typefaces for my websites, and I keep coming to a divide between reading and writing.For writing I find I need generous letter-spacing. For reading, the repetitive pattern of the wide spacing becomes a distraction, and I prefer more compact fonts.I see that the Terza family capitalizes on this idea, with sub-typefaces Terza Reader, Terza Author,...

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Hi friends!I’m excited to share a couple big things about Font Proofer: a huge update that I launched last week, and an imminent update to the pricing!I’ll start with the latter, because it’s quick. I’m working on a one-time purch...

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The VF spec describes the slnt values to be negative numbers equivalent to the slant degree*. So a font of ours might receive a -6 slnt value for the obliques. In my view this is insane and in no way reflective of user behavior. Positive values are much more representative of user expectation.

I can’t think of a negative impact beyond it doesn’t match the spec ...

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If anyone here has any clout there

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