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2048 and 4096 may feel not being rounded, simply because you’re more familiar with base-10 counting; they are perfectly “rounded” in binary (base-2), as 2048=2¹¹ and 4096=2¹². Incidentally, … (View Post)

you can choose whatever you want as long as it doesnt exceed 16,384, as far as I am aware. some obscure environments will prefer 2048. there is some prior discussion on upper limits here I have used … (View Post)

You can spend ages drawing and redrawing a letter on paper, and at the end of the day you still have something that you need to digitise in order to be useful. Designing type directly in the digital … (View Post)

@"John Savard" said, Nothing to do with improvements in mice. Type designers have adapted to building outlines with Bézier tools. It's not the same as drawing with a pencil or pen, even tho… (View Post)

Congrats! I hope it gets used as much as Cormorant, or more of course :) (View Post)

Thanks for getting this back on track. (View Post)

But not only. Some foundries may have IP that they have under-leveraged or, indeed, not leveraged at all. So, for example, a company whose income is primarily derived from custom work may also have I… (View Post)


I am puzzled by this statement, just as Thomas Phinney is, but I don't know if it is for the same reason.Obviously, if you are acting as a reseller of Monotype-owned fonts, you would need to… (View Post)

This is how it was in the good old days. The 1999 Agfa/Monotype Creative Alliance 9.0 book, for example, essentially said so too but the other way round: requiring that printers license fonts too if … (View Post)

I don't see much ambiguity in this license excerpt, but I also have the unique experience of being a typeface designer and a prepress operator at a print shop. Here's my interpretation: If you have a… (View Post)