When designing PostScript fonts, one long-standing challenge has been mastering the precision of placing points when drawing lines and curves. Here at Adobe Type, when this problem threatened to thwart the development of a typeface, we ended up adapting our font development software to allow for even more precise point placement. Most glyphs are drawn within an area (called the the ‘em-box’) that
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