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Re: What to do about our fonts after we die?
in my mind I my mind I was thinking you could potentially use one of those places as your digital locker, set it all up with them ahead of time and then have it in your will that they release them?1 -
Re: Inconsistent overshoots?
Strange, I always have the urge to give /s/ slightly larger overshoots than /o/. Perhaps it's because I'm thinking of humanist sanses with relatively narrow (and thus pointy) /s/.1 -
Re: Inconsistent overshoots?
Absolutely, overshoot can be expected to vary between glyphs, when different shapes are involved. Flatter/wider elements need less overshoot, pointier/smaller bits need more. The old terminology from…4 -
Re: What to do about our fonts after we die?
just to clarify this:• I have not been ‘insisting’ on anything.• I have not made any ad hominem remarks about you personally.• I have merely stated that “to have children or not is definitely not irr…-1 -
Re: What to do about our fonts after we die?
I fear that this discussion is getting too political, and this is probably not the best place for such a debate. I had a major part in that, so I apologize for derailing the conversation. I will resp…1 -
Re: Affinity 2.0
All about their perception of where the money is. In 90% of software projects for design purposes, probably including this one, nobody realizes what all is REALLY involved in global text layout until…7 -
Re: No art training; where to start?
Whenever we teach a font making workshop, I always describe the letter drawing process as Sudoku. Basically you start with what you know then backfill until eventually you fill all the letter slots. …1 -
Re: Affinity 2.0
Too bad. I am sure they had other things to pursue, but that renders Affinity apps pretty useless to me for design work.3 -
Re: What to do about our fonts after we die?
This thread is about the fonts, but I hope some of you are also thinking about posthumous homes for your libraries, sketches, papers, etc. Odds-wise, not many of you will be become the subject of som…4 -
Re: Web shop question
We do not have a limit or number of downloads or based on time. People can always log in and download the most up-to-date version of their font purchase, i.e. the files themselves aren’t linked to th…4
