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Re: Metric and em size
2048 and 4096 may feel not being rounded, simply because you’re more familiar with base-10 counting; they are perfectly “rounded” in binary (base-2), as 2048=2¹¹ and 4096=2¹². Incidentally, 16,384=2…4 -
Re: Metric and em size
you can choose whatever you want as long as it doesnt exceed 16,384, as far as I am aware. some obscure environments will prefer 2048. there is some prior discussion on upper limits here I have used …2 -
Re: The LeMo Method
You can spend ages drawing and redrawing a letter on paper, and at the end of the day you still have something that you need to digitise in order to be useful. Designing type directly in the digital …3 -
Re: The LeMo Method
@"John Savard" said, Nothing to do with improvements in mice. Type designers have adapted to building outlines with Bézier tools. It's not the same as drawing with a pencil or pen, eve…2 -
Re: Ysabeau: A faithful sans companion to Garamond, now on Google Fonts
Congrats! I hope it gets used as much as Cormorant, or more of course :)1 -
Re: Your business is worth more than 6X yearly earnings
Thanks for getting this back on track.1 -
Re: Your business is worth more than 6X yearly earnings
But not only. Some foundries may have IP that they have under-leveraged or, indeed, not leveraged at all. So, for example, a company whose income is primarily derived from custom work may also have I…5 -
Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
I am puzzled by this statement, just as Thomas Phinney is, but I don't know if it is for the same reason.Obviously, if you are acting as a reseller of Monotype-owned fonts, you would need to do…1 -
Re: Monotype End User License Agreement - Commercial Printers
This is how it was in the good old days. The 1999 Agfa/Monotype Creative Alliance 9.0 book, for example, essentially said so too but the other way round: requiring that printers license fonts too if …3 -
Re: Monotype End User License Agreement - Commercial Printers
I don't see much ambiguity in this license excerpt, but I also have the unique experience of being a typeface designer and a prepress operator at a print shop. Here's my interpretation: If …4
