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Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
I loved the old feature in InDesign which would just automatically pick the right optical size of an MM for whatever point size you chose. Made more sense in a print-only world, but I would still use…6 -
Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
I am not averse to potentially using variable fonts, but the vast majority of software I use does not natively support variable fonts, or at least not in a way that works well. So far for me the adva…4 -
Re: EULA question - mobile devices
@"Eris Alar" ask whoever issued the license. If the reseller didn’t write the license you can’t count on their answer3 -
Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
Type Network dedicated a lot of effort this year to talking about and promoting variables (and testing them, and shipping them), but I’ll only say they are not exactly burning up the charts yet — and…3 -
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
