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Re: Lost - Found - Gone
Bookshelf collapses are bad, hoarding is not helpful. It's honest feedback that much typographic ephemera is wasted, especially on fellow type designers. And there is value in not being overly tied t…8 -
Re: Convention on descriptive names for color fonts with separate tables
Thanks everyone for the valuable input! I’ve updated the article to reflect your findings. Much appreciated as this makes the list more accurate and useful for everyone.2 -
Monotype foundry webinar on royalties
Hello all, We've been receiving a lot of questions about how Monotype will pay royalties on its new subscription service. We've also heard that they plan to give a webinar on the top on Wednesday so,…14 -
Re: How does Unicode work?
Capital-Eszett and the Euro were an enthralling trip for this type designer, but I didn’t have the same enthusiasm for emoticons, which got a little out-of-hand, IMO. Not that I have anything against…1 -
Re: Lost - Found - Gone
I decided pretty early on that I was mostly uninterested in the ephemera of type conferences, and imposed pretty strict criteria on what I would keep. Most of the content of ‘goody bags’ ended up in …3 -
Re: Lost - Found - Gone
I haven't reached that point yet, but it's not as unimaginable as it once was.2 -
Re: W3C Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) is now a candidate recommendation
Agree with John. Let's say I am Foundry X, and our site is in Czech and English, plus we have a designer on several families who is Turkish. My base fonts should have full support for English + Czech…2 -
Re: W3C Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) is now a candidate recommendation
Putting accented characters in a separate patch isn’t a useful idea if the language of a website uses a lot of diacritics. Thats what I mean when I refer to site-specific factors that the foundry can…2 -
Re: Workshop Pricing
I'd define what my ideal daily rate would be when working on small commissions (i personally charge 400-500€ per day as a type designer situated in Copenhagen) and then I'd double that amount to take…4 -
Re: Discover by FontBase
Very cool! Do you have any plans on making this accessible on the web?1
