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Re: Does someone here trade in Adobe, MyFonts or other similar stocks?
I invest all my money in Les Pauls. As long as Gibson keeps raising the price every other year I’ll be able to sell them all and retire.2 -
Re: Does someone here trade in Adobe, MyFonts or other similar stocks?
Also, one cannot invest in MyFonts. MyFonts is owned by Monotype and Monotype is owned by a private equity firm. Investments in PE are usually limited to investors who can invest $10 million or more …2 -
Re: Seminar on May 21: BULLETPROOF YOUR FONT LICENCES
I see they are based in the UK, as you are. To which jurisdiction(s) is the seminar advice applicable?1 -
Re: Anyone paint as an outlet?
I was an art major before I turned to graphic design as a career. Along the way to becoming a book designer and then a type designer, I took a brief turn as an illustrator. A year ago, I started post…3 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
The making of fonts is particularly relevant to the AI issue. With digitization, decades ago, the type industry came to the legal position that it’s OK to simulate a typeface “manually,” but not by “…1 -
Re: Anyone paint as an outlet?
As for ways the skills of painting/drawing might have a bearing on type design, I think the biggest thing is training the eye to see visual forms. Type design (except for the sketching part) is more …4 -
Re: Videos from ATypI 2025 Copenhagen: release underway
For anyone, like me, who is an Arabic outsider, I can highly recommend this session: From Calligraphy to Pixels: Investigating Modern Arabic Type Panels don’t always work well, but this one had such …2 -
Re: Videos from ATypI 2025 Copenhagen: release underway
Fortunately angels exist all around the world.1 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
There’s a proverb in English about closing the barn door after the horse has bolted, which I think applies in this case. It is unlikly that OFL will be changed, and there is no mechanism within OFL t…2 -
Re: 30th anniversary of OpenType (May 6)
Fortunately Libreoffice Impress supports Opentype Features such as Stylistic alternates and can be a drop-in replacement for Power Point3
