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Re: Advice on Advertising?
* As a reader, what kind of ad placement or formats are you okay with? Gosh, no idea. * Of course I have lots of ideas, but what kind of advertisers would you like to see in a newsletter about typogr…2 -
Advice on Advertising?
I’m starting a daily email newsletter on type. It’s growing steadily and I’m humbled by the interest so far. We plan to launch Winter 2025.I have some questions (and slight ambivalence) about running…3 -
Re: Fontbakery feedback
@"Simon Cozens" The web version of Fontbakery is a good thing! However, the website is not encrypted and secured via https://. Enabling SSL encryption would be a step in the right direction…1 -
Re: Type Engineering: How to get into it?
The topic is truly interesting. In my opinion, the field of Font Engineering initially requires solid knowledge of type design, especially in terms of the proportions of glyphs and typographic relati…1 -
Re: Which is the best free font editor?
The reason someone uses something — or wants to use something — may have little to do with the intent or ‘purpose’ assigned to the thing by the person who made or published that thing. ‘Zero dollars’…2 -
Re: Which is the best free font editor?
I would very much appreciate it if a new version of FontForge were released. The last official release is now more than two years old. In my opinion, FontForge is currently missing two essential feat…1 -
Re: Which is the best free font editor?
Thomas Phinney, it's difficult to give a detailed answer because we don't know what the questioner is trying to achieve with the free software. Are they aiming to design a single font or develop an e…1 -
Re: Film title inspired font
I don't like the shape of that I: it looks unbalanced. The film isn't The Hunchback of Notre Dame. But I have altered it a fair bit. There are also alternate final glyphs.1 -
Re: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future?
Yes; but the issue is actually more complicated than that. Many moderately technical users are certainly aware that they can go to a web site, and run JavaScript software on a page which does work lo…1 -
Re: Are these enough nodes to draw up an oval with just 2 points? Nothing to do with hinting
In what context are you asking the question? If this relates to font making, then I would ask what your two-node oval looks like when converted to quadratic curves? That’s always one of my thoughts w…2
