🚀 go-pugleaf

I would like to take this bit of net bandwidth to encourage
Apple to make their core set of outline fonts a showcase for
state-of-the-art Apple font technology. This will do two
things for Apple (and users as well):
  - Show people what the line layout and script managers
    can do with well designed fonts.
  - Raise users' expectations of the features that well
    designed fonts should include.

(parenthetical note: I believe that Apple should have
released some multi-bit fonts with the Mac II. They didn't;
The result was a dearth of fuzzy-fonts for the Mac.)

Things that I would like to see in Apple's fonts:
  - Small Caps
  - Swash Variants (Esp. swash numerals)
  - Lots of kerning pairs (say >500)
  - More than 2 weights (preferably 4 to 8)
  - Exploitation of optical bounds (so the system can automatically
    align characters optically)
  - Hanging punctuation

If Apple doesn't provide features like these in their core fonts,
then users will not know to expect them, font venders will know
that they can get by without providing them, and the promise
of the line layout and script managers will be spent.
-- 
Norman Graham                            Oklahoma State University
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