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Re: Industry Letter to Copyright Office - Please Share
Where is the letter? Are people actually allowed to read a draft before agreeing to sign their names to it? I would absolutely trust Monotype to fuck this up and even further diminish protection for …3 -
Re: additional ligatures do not show up – what might be wrong?
Not sure why those five substitutions in particular are not working: the code looks fine. A couple of comments though: The order of substitutions matter, and for ligatures you generally want to go fr…3 -
Re: What AI tools does the font community need?
Indeed. Perhaps the better way to phrase the original question is "What are the parts of type design you don't enjoy?" Maybe some people enjoy kerning. But I don't know any.2 -
Re: Glare of white 100% backgrounds and how it affects fonts
Reverse issue: when testing closed caption fonts, I found that #FFFFFF white causes a dazzle effect, which harms legibility. I suggest to clients that they use a lower white value for television set …1 -
Re: Sharpness setting for displays alters fonts
Ah, but people go to the store, check out the monitor... and then order it cheaper online. Anyhow, back to @jaimes original question: yes this is a known thing. Sharpening screws with the edges of “t…1 -
Re: Sharpness setting for displays alters fonts
In a previous Day Job I sold multi-monitor arrays based on whatever LCD monitor models met our criteria combination of cost and features at any given time, and I can tell you we routinely had to turn…1 -
Re: Who will attend ATypI Stanford (May 27-30)
The US contains one third of one billion humans. Stanford is in a deep blue city in a blue state. California is even making secessionist noises these days. If you feel somehow threatened by the curre…0 -
Re: Who will attend ATypI Stanford (May 27-30)
I very carefully wrote "travelling to America" rather than "travelling in America". I don't have a problem with the vast majority of the third of a billion humans - just the ones …5 -
Re: T. Phinney and P. Shaw quoted in the Washington Post
For obvious reasons, typeface designers generally don't get the same level of... creative control... that the law usually affords, say, musicians. So we frequently hear of musicians objecting to the …1 -
Re: What hobbies or activities do you do for a break?
When I need a screen break, depending on the weather, I like to pop into the garden - touch dirt, or, read a chapter of my book1
