Hello Type Drawers folks, Sorry to be back here only now. These last months have been quite hectic, but I thought that it would be nice to bring updates about Words of Type, for those who were wonder… (View Post)
I have not read him, but I am informed that one of the main defenders of Coster was Hessels: https://www.amazon.com/Haarlem-Birth-Place-Printing-Classic-Reprint/dp/1331964687 And there is this other … (View Post)
Over the last year the hardware has become much faster. Now I've read that we are also moving from traditional "floating point" to a new "bitnets" maths. All that will increase th… (View Post)
The latest OpenAI ChatGPT was announced yesterday and the announcement blog post is at https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o In the Exploration Of Capabilities section drop-down, there is a "tex… (View Post)
Apart from the need to familiarise yourself with some probably unfamiliar letter shapes, these are some things to keep in mind: * Traditionally, IPA was almost always set in roman type, but increasin… (View Post)
Hi everyone, A colleague of mine recently tested Bionic Reading, an app that (according to its makers) speeds up reading (bionic-reading.com). The resulting peer-reviewed scientific publication also … (View Post)
We used 4096 a couple of times on Microsoft project, I recall, but for TTFs. For a long time, there were bugs in third-party PDF creators that presumed a 1000 UPM for CFF fonts, causing scaling and/o… (View Post)
Passed off as Law, is the problem. This implies correctness in perpetuity. With book typography, particularly in the pre-digital eras, you may have had more of a need for expediency of consistency. B… (View Post)
@"donat raetzo" If you're having trouble getting what you want out of FL8, you might also consider running Chris Simpkin's dehinter tool https://github.com/source-foundry/dehinter. Aside fr… (View Post)