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  1. Marie Kondo for type design: If you have alternate glyphs in your typeface and are unsure about keeping them, first sort by category: 1. stylistic alts 2. swashes 3. ligatures 4. contextual alts 5. historical forms Once this is done, delete them all. No one uses alternates✨
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
    1. …in reply to @cjtype
      Please note this advice is meant for alternate glyphs you are *unsure* about, and if are looking to tidy your designspace. If you are sure you need every one of those alts, go for it. Those stylistic sets aren’t going to fill themselves!