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Re: Brab - a Sans Typeface
Nice!—but the nadir of the M bothers me. Could you make it a bit sharper, maybe thin the diagonals slightly, narrow the glyph a tad? (Compare how nuanced/thinned the curved joint of B is.)2 -
Re: Calibri Strikes Again
As Homer Simpson would say, “Fonts. Is there anything they can’t do?”1 -
Re: Calibri Strikes Again
'There's actually people, by the way, who design fonts.' I always love to say this to people :)1 -
Re: Adobe Fonts (Creative Cloud license)
All fonts used through Adobe Fonts share the same Service Terms of Use. Anecdotally, I vaguely recall a foundry or two that attempted to assert their own limitations elsewhere (e.g. “If you use our f…4 -
Re: Copyright Registration (Any Loopholes?)
I think the distincion that @candela describes between copyrighted and non-copyrighted works may be more familiarly understood as between registered and non-registered copyright. You don’t have to re…2 -
Re: What does it mean if a desktop font license from MyFonts reads: (until Jul 2014)?
Also not a lawyer and not offering legal advice. I am imagining that one explanation is, someone (MyFonts? the foundry? unclear) had a plan to switch over to a different license—for future licensors—…1 -
Re: Copyright Registration (Any Loopholes?)
The above letter from the Copyright Office is bizarre to me, because it seems to ignore the idea that code is protectable. Instead, it rejects the typeface because visual (non-written) work isn’t pro…2 -
Re: Any Good Book Recommendations on Type Design?
Sorry to be self promotional! Many of tutorial topics here are FontLab related. Also some, especially in the honing section are more general (about spatial frequencies and optical sizes, curve tensio…2 -
Re: Any Good Book Recommendations on Type Design?
In addition to the volumes already recommended, Gerritt Noordzij’s The Stroke is useful in suggesting a way of thinking about what you’re doing. You don’t need to agree with that way of thinking, or …1 -
Re: Any Good Book Recommendations on Type Design?
Tim Ahren's Size Specific Adjustments to Type Design taught me the most. The text and examples are well done. For looking at historical models, see my favorites from the internet archive.3
