@"Thomas Phinney" It is important to differentiate between "manual hinting" intended for GDI, and that intended for DWrite. I spent many hours reviewing, correcting, and mastering… (View Post)
It really depends on the use case(s) and client(s). But mostly, for most fonts and font designers/developers? No. I will be very curious to know/check the degree to which the new MS Aptos has careful… (View Post)
I've been hearing stories about monotype's "extortionate license enforcement" literally as long as I've been in fonts. As tempting as it is to believe, I always remind myself that there are… (View Post)
Fwiw, I just confirmed that ALMOST all the Aptos family has no glyph-level manual hinting. The Narrow styles however are the new default in Excel, and Excel still uses old-school GDI rendering (!) so… (View Post)
This video was posted by a railway enthusiast but he discusses the subject with a great deal of understanding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfabkIhRRxs (View Post)
Hi Tyler, get your portfolio out to the foundries and see what response you get. You can do this whilst still at the agency. You could do a gradual transition from agency to freelance by taking on jo… (View Post)
Many colophons credit only the text face, not the display face, either to keep things simple or to limit the number of pre-written typeface credits a publisher needs to keep on hand. Then there are f… (View Post)
Why LinkedIn specifically? (I understand if that’s your preference, but I also recommend joining Mastodon and following the active type design community there, primarily at typo.social.) (View Post)
I don't think they're opposite. Both things are true. For the record, here's what happened. I reported to my counterpart at Monotype a disturbing incident. A client told us (and supplied written evid… (View Post)
If I had to choose a printer (or whatever else) for proofing.. I won't choose the best one. Instead I will choose the average one, or the most popular one among my typical clientele. If you choose th… (View Post)