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Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Of course, no prediction of the future can be “true”, but don’t you think that there is a strong likelihood that the warnings of Aza and Tristan about what could go wrong due to AI, will go wrong? Ha…3 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Actually, you said that, not me. (I don’t pepper my posts with “fucking”.) I prefer my “indoctrination” to whatever kool-aid you’re drinking!1 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
It’s only tangentially related to the subject here, but I wouldn’t discount how early Adobe Originals were designed to conform to the limitations of PostScript and low-resolution printers. Especially…3 -
Re: PowerPoint: Please vote for OpenType Feature support eg. Kerning
@John Hudson This was almost four decades ago, during which Microsoft did not mind to spend billions on bullshit and to rewrite parts of Windows, so at this point it amounts to hardly more than an en…3 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
You can’t talk about typeface designs for screen without talking about specific display technologies, resolutions, and renderers. There are two different aspects to ‘designing typefaces for screens’:…4 -
Re: Elemaints - A Serif Family with Optical Sizes
@"Christian Thalmann" At least the /alpha of the bold display face was leaning too much to the right. I will modify this later by hand, this was mainly an unexpected consequence of the extr…1 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
I would say Verdana and Georgia are your best starting points. Tall x-height, open counters, low contrast, loose spacing.1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Touch grass1 -
Re: PowerPoint: Please vote for OpenType Feature support eg. Kerning
If anyone from Microsoft is reading this: copy and paste the “font section” of the PowerPoint source code into Bing Chat, then type “add OpenType feature support” then copy and paste the result back …6 -
Re: PowerPoint: Please vote for OpenType Feature support eg. Kerning
@"John Butler" Thanks a lot for you help. I much appreciate it. I do all this not because I like PowerPoint. It's because font customers like using PowerPoint. And often they say think…2
