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rippeltippel 14 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Making Software: How to make a font

Misleading title. This is an explainer on how fonts are encoded and rendered, not a tutorial on how to actually make a font.

yorwba 14 days ago | [–]

If you want a tutorial, http://designwithfontforge.com might be up your alley.

amelius 14 days ago | | [–]

Read this instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_and_Typesetting

speerer 14 days ago | [–]

I suspect the URL and the article title are correct, if you buy the whole chapter - and it's just that we are seeing a preview which gets the grounding down first.

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