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A Brief History of Type
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## Pre-digital type
## Pre-TT/OT Fonts
## TT / OT / GX / etc. & OT consolidation
### The OT Co-operative model
## Would be remiss not to mention emoji here
## Color and variable fonts

Font Concepts
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## Characters and glyphs
## Dimensions, sidebearings and kerns
## Font formats
## Editing tools

Unicode
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## Pre-Unicode encodings
## The Unicode standard : history, organisation, etc.
## Unicode Encodings
## Character properties
## Case conversion
## Normalization and decomposition
## ICU

How OpenType Works
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## What is an OpenType font? (Tables)
### FontTools (ttx)

XXX How do make this functional and task-driven rather than abstract?

## Features, lookups and rules
## The feature language

## Kerns
## Ligatures
## Small caps
## Superscript / Subscript
## Stylistic Alternates
## Contextual Alternates
## Positioning

## How features are encoded

## Color fonts
## Font variations

OT for internationalisation
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(This all need reorganising nicely)
## Features
### Turkish i
### Serbian be
### Polish Kreska
### Navajo Ogonek
### Arabic, Urdu and Sindhi
## Other tables
### Baselines
### Vertical typesetting
### Anchors
### Mark-to-mark / mark-to-base
### Entry / Exit

Graphite
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Advanced Feature programming
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## Boundary detection
## Fractions (see Nutso)
## Randomization

Layout Challenges
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## Bidirectionality
## Other directionality (vertical etc.)
## Arabic connection
## Line breaking & word detection
### CJK
### South Asian scripts

Rasterisation and Hinting
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Fonts on the web
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OpenType for Programmers: freetype2
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Text Layout for Programmers: Harfbuzz
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Text Layout for Programmers: libraqm
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