As an interesting follow-up to yesterday’s Free Font Manifesto, I highly recommend reading the article on Type Quality Engineering at the Adobe Type Team blog.
It details the steps in Adobe’s thorough process for testing new fonts for defects. Unless you’ve got experience designing fonts, you may not believe how much effort goes into making sure every aspect of a font works as expected. It also clearly shows how a font is really a piece of software (and needs to be tested as such to be sure there are no bugs hiding in it), as well as some of the value you can get when you pay for a commercial font.
A tiny sample from the testing of the OpenType font Arno Pro Regular, and its 2,846 glyphs
This article was last modified on July 27, 2021
This article was first published on November 8, 2013
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