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Re: Hello
You could try my book: https://simoncozens.github.io/fonts-and-layout/3 -
Re: Your business is worth more than 6X yearly earnings
If anything, I'd say AI is likely to drive down the worth of your foundry. Better AI means more and cheaper competition, which means less money to be made for your foundry. Anyway, that is how m…2 -
Re: Your business is worth more than 6X yearly earnings
Does the 6x factor apply to the royalty split that MT pays you, or the full revenue of your font?2 -
Re: Your business is worth more than 6X yearly earnings
Thanks for pulling this topic. Based on my recent release, I would say that the market is VERY different than it used to be before COVID, and we need more of a type business discussion. A classic thi…3 -
Re: FontPeople distribuiting one of my typefaces under a different name.
I took a look at this with Marc Foley's new fontdiffenator. Some vertical metrics have changed. The hinting has gone missing. But the kerning is identical and the point placement is identical. T…9 -
Re: Any recommendations for a reputable vendor focused on Cyrillic (or generally multi-language) fonts?
from a practical standpoint, the argument I give clients who want to expand our fonts to Cyrillic for hiring Vika instead of someone Russian is as follows: It's hard to imagine an international …2 -
Re: Any recommendations for a reputable vendor focused on Cyrillic (or generally multi-language) fonts?
I'm sure that Vika Grabowsk doesn't have time but it's worth asking her just in case. She did the widths extension to our Omnes Cyrillic (John Hudson did the standard width). Viktoria …7 -
Re: Any recommendations for a reputable vendor focused on Cyrillic (or generally multi-language) fonts?
Contrast Foundry is young foundry based in the US and run by people who are native to Cyrillic. Many have studied at the Moscow State University for Printing Arts. Maria Doreuli, one of the CoFo foun…2 -
Re: Adam Savage from Mythbusters on fonts.
The presentation given by Underware at ATypI last week of their new handwriting font, Scribo, also presented a variable font technique they have been working on to simulate animated handwriting with …3 -
Re: Hex codepoints for these symbols
Typo: should be 1F3A4 You could set up a ccmp feature ligation for /u1F3A4_uni20E0 but note that this may not work because U+1F3A4 is an emoji character so software may fall back to the system emoji …1
