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Re: Font Distribution: Know Your Rights
@JoyceKetterer is this a perspective thing? As in, you see the costs and benefits for the host and speaker, but functionally, to an attendee, it does not cost them money to go, so is ‘free’. If the o…2 -
Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
Google fonts has a bunch of variable fonts, and represents a large chunk of the market. It shows usage statistics, so might be a good place to start.2 -
Re: Type Design Project Opinion
The Light looks reasonable overall in the basic alphabet, whereas the heavier cuts progressively look cruder, with bumpy curves and unbalanced stroke weights. It feels like you expanded the glyphs on…1 -
Re: Type Design Project Opinion
That describes your working process, but what is your thinking process? I find it helpful to think of a typeface as a collection of answers to one or more questions, and being able to articulate the …3 -
Help Fund The Next Stage of TypeDrawers - Updated for 2023
Updated for 2023: For that past several years, I have been paying for TypeDrawers out-of-pocket (with donations from some amazing members). This costs me a little under $1,000 a year just to keep the…4 -
Re: exploring variable fonts - seeking tipps for nodes placing/outline design
I would go for open corners and not really overlapping shapes. This could give some rendering issues2 -
Re: exploring variable fonts - seeking tipps for nodes placing/outline design
It's better to draw glyphs such as the euro with overlapping shapes, rather than a single contour. As long as you keep the contour orders in check, it makes kinkless interpolation much easier.5 -
Re: How to fix jagged diagonal lines?
I was using Andreas’ visual examples as a reference. The forms on the left do not look jagged to me, while those on the right do, and based on my experience I would say this is because the strokes ar…1 -
Re: How to fix jagged diagonal lines?
the visual effect you describe is an optical distortion which occurs always which such shapes, even without a pixel rendering. Maybe you try a treatment of the glyph’s geometry?5 -
Re: Create one glyph and extrapolate its design to create others?
That tool does not exist yet AFAIK. Currently we have to do it ourself. Lately I have been thinking about it, and started looking at tutorialstensorflow.org tutorials to learn the basics about how it…1
