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Re: Is the font design business profitable for you guys?
No comment. And the idea that salaried shop assistants do "not own the fruits of their labors does not make them a low-level employee whose work requires no special skills" comes from you,…1 -
Re: Is the font design business profitable for you guys?
In terms of the original question I would think that only the entities that sell fonts or font services, whether individuals or companies, would qualify in terms of standing to make a profit as such…1 -
Re: Is the font design business profitable for you guys?
@"Thomas Phinney", to split hairs a bit... I think it's easier to get custom work than it is to produce a retail font that earns the same amount in a year that you could make from the custo…4 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
But now font users have to memorize 12 is Regular and 6 is Thin in one font, but in a different font that uses a different step size, 3 is Regular and 1 is Thin. And if you use multiple apps, some su…3 -
Re: Type design hot takes
Only because we can be accurate to a bajillionth of a unit, we are. Can't help it.2 -
Re: Is the font design business profitable for you guys?
No - at least, not if I were to place a realistic value my time. I run a part-time, one-man foundry and started making fonts in the 1990s, offering them for sale from 2005. Some of my output has been…5 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Absolutely! And her 2018 Alphabettes article is still one of the freshest pieces of thinking about possible ways to present multi-axis design spaces to users. The spider’s web visualisation is a grea…3 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
I feel like this discussion is too fixated on the slider interface. A font only offering 300 and 350 axis values but restricting anything in between by specifying a step size for that axis might make…3 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
@"Florian Pircher" of course this could be problematic for software support. The support of variable fonts is still an ongoing process, if we are proposing improvements is better now than l…1 -
Re: Type design hot takes
Nowadays designers work too much by numbers. Equal stem widths for example. As if they don't trust their eyes anymore.9
