These programs are very similiar to the many so-called contests that included mandatory contracts for their alleged winners, from VGC's media-hyped type design competitions more than 50 years ago to … (View Post)
Most older text fonts digitized during the gold rush of the 1990s were sourced from film type, itself sourced from drawings originally made for metal production. Drawings for metal text faces were ma… (View Post)
Scott, interesting article you linked. Aside from the author's recurring point of the digital economy requiring less people to run, the Kodak/Instagram comparison is way off. Kodak was a photography … (View Post)
Ben, I think your Internet Explorer analogy is an interesting but misplaced one. IE's major competition at the time was one program, Netscape, and it was free. So it was a boxing match for near-total… (View Post)
John, that's a very interesting thought about determining fair payment by analyzing the value derived from the fonts. If it can be done and the market can support it, I think I'd be all for it. But I… (View Post)