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Re: Feedback for a display sans font
So much of the design idea seems committed to constraining angles to horizontal, vertical, and 45° that where other angles appear on terminals (/T/E/F/S/L/C/2/3/5/6) it strikes my eye as unfitting. A…1 -
Re: AI.com was reportedly sold for 70 million USD.
The oldest recorded copy on the wayback machine shows a company called "Advanced Instruments Corp.® Services" using the domain name in 1996 (https://web.archive.org/web/19961028155350/http:…2 -
Re: AI.com was reportedly sold for 70 million USD.
If you were thinking about Peter Fraterdeus’s label, that was Alphabets, Inc. – with an AI prefix for typeface names. His domain name wasn’t half bad either. In fact, much better: alphabets.com. Now …2 -
Re: Transliteration into Latin characters of Cyrillic characters
We can, however, anticipate where in the digital text stack specific kinds of operations are most appropriate and where not, because the kinds of operations are known even when the specifics of indiv…1 -
Re: Transliteration into Latin characters of Cyrillic characters
Is that what the user wants, though? Maybe what they want is text in auld — or maybe olde — English spelling, and are disappointed when they copy and paste and get something different from how it loo…1 -
Re: AI.com was reportedly sold for 70 million USD.
Two type franchise firms may still have been in business in 1993; Alphabet Innovations and A.I. although I don't remember what the A.I. stood for. Either could have owned the domain then except …2 -
Re: Input on work in progress typeface
I am going to give my standard advice for novice type designers: spend more time looking at things than trying to make things. You will learn a lot more about type design from carefully looking at su…5 -
Re: "No style grouping conflict" issue on Monotype Font Platform
I don’t have time to check the font files themselves. BUT... everything else you show and say seems correct to me. Weird that they Monotype won’t say anything more specific (though I can understand t…1 -
Re: Your experience with Lemon Squeezy...
I don’t mind cute or playful business names, but ‘Lemon Squeezy’ references a relatively obscure idiom with which huge numbers of potential users are likely unfamiliar. ‘C’mon Ollie, it’s going to be…2 -
Re: Input on work in progress typeface
Pay more attention to getting the interior spaces within the letters (the counters) more even. As is, by squinting you can see that the /A is darker than the /B and the /g darker than the /h, not bec…1
