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Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Say you have a font with two axes, both offering 10 steps. That’s already 10 × 10 = 100 instances. 100 instances are probably more than anyone would regularly check for quality issues, so I don’t th…1 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Useful and meaningful to whom? In what situations? A useful and meaningful selection of instances for a signage project is likely to be different from that for a product design project, which is diff…1 -
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
