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A verie bad fount
Following up on this previous discussion, I’ve now published the typeface in question. Auld English® has three novel contextual features (default long-s, pseudo-random effect for body-text letterpres…13 -
Re: Advice on Advertising?
FWIW, I think weekly would be more a) manageable, b) sustainable, and c) less likely to wear out its welcome. Something sent out every Friday, for instance, could provide a nice wind down for the wee…7 -
Re: Advice on Advertising?
I also think daily is too much. I'd consider subscribing to something put out every week or two. Daily e-mails are a turn-off.7 -
Re: FontEnigma
The concept of intellectual property arose from tensions between different parties making and publishing various kinds of works, beginning around the time that printing from cast type made reproducti…5 -
Re: FontEnigma
Encryption, going back to the Enigma machine, implies 3 parties: A message sender, a legitimate message receiver, and an illegitimate message intercepting attacker. Before public key encryption, goin…5 -
Re: New UAE Dirham Currency Symbol
The proposal seems to reflect the same confusion between a logo/icon and a currency symbol that we saw in the euro symbol specifications from the EU. It is unfortunate that they will (once again) lea…6 -
Re: Is Adobe Originals closing down?
I agree with at least some of that. There’s no doubt Adobe has changed a lot, for whatever reason. By the time I (and Thomas) got there, the Originals program was no longer Adobe’s cash cow, and had …6 -
Dramatic increase in Desktop prices on MyFonts
Prepping for my talk today so I checked in on tiers and multipliers on MyFonts. Web pricing remains as in 2024 but the Desktop licenses have dramatically increased since Dec 2024. Look at the 30 user…6 -
Re: Do you know any app online that can list the languages covered in the character set of a given font?
Checking for correct smcp behaviour in Turkish is nice but there’s around a dozen of languages using the dotted i and dotted capital İ. Besides Turkish (TRK tr) Glyphs.app adds:* Azerbaijani (AZE az…8 -
Re: Is Adobe Originals closing down?
I often tell type tourists (like big co executives ;) that one has to be extremely picky in temperament to be a professional type designer, to care passionately about tiny details that are impercepti…8
