All good points. It's true that some clients won't be completely delighted no matter how we behave during a compliance licensing discussion. We represent our foundry partners in these conversations. … (View Post)
While I agree with pretty much everything Aaron wrote regarding quality, I’m finding that no one wants to pay for manual hinting any more. For a long time, I have quoted hinting costs separately, bec… (View Post)
We mostly do autohinting these days. The majority of rendering, even in environments like Windows that still respect (most) TT instructions, benefits from y-direction alignment controls and some shap… (View Post)
Hi Tyler, get your portfolio out to the foundries and see what response you get. You can do this whilst still at the agency. You could do a gradual transition from agency to freelance by taking on jo… (View Post)
I wonder if the day is not far when type designers buying printers to test how their fonts will look will be the only people buying printers. (View Post)
I don't think they're opposite. Both things are true. For the record, here's what happened. I reported to my counterpart at Monotype a disturbing incident. A client told us (and supplied written evid… (View Post)