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Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
Right, thanks for the clarification. Essentially, a reference to the separate PS font file was added to the existing Mac screen font format (NFNT), which already supported everything else, so that yo…1 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
The printer font contained the outlines, and the spacing, but neither kerning nor menu name and style linking information. All that was in the (Mac) suitcase file which also contained the bitmaps or …2 -
Re: PowerPoint: Please vote for OpenType Feature support eg. Kerning
Powerpoint had a better but less popular competitor back in the day, Aldus Persuasion. It's too bad it didn't make it. When Adobe acquired Aldus in 1994, it released a Windows version of Pe…6 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
This was because the font metrics were stored in the bitmap font file. The "printer font"—i.e., the PostScript part—contained the outlines, but not the metrics (spacing and kerning). But, y…1 -
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
