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Re: Customized en dash in Calluna Sans
A much-belated update to this thread – Calluna Sans' designer was contacted, Jos Buivenga of the exljbris Font Foundry in The Netherlands, who was highly responsive to an inquiry. After hearing the …5 -
Re: Customized en dash in Calluna Sans
From https://www.fontspring.com/lic/exljbris/desktop: So modifying the font itself is prohibited by the license, but modifying graphical objects (such as stretching the en dash) is allowed. Or you co…3 -
Re: A humanist grotesque (sic!)
I like the new k. If you ask me, the descending z and the strange caps are a step too far.1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Not to get too far off topic, but Community Gothic from Frere-Jones is an example of a type family that (IMO) rather successfully achieves what you're describing. I do think you're right about the ef…4 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
It's funny that you chose Univers as an example. I was thinking about how AI can free fonts from the tyranny of interpolation and the Bézier curve. The condensed styles of the original Univers had fl…5 -
Re: A new graphical editor for TrueType hints
Glyphs appears to run a separate stack for Font Info, available only when the Font Info window has focus. I suspect I'll do something like that.1 -
Re: Marl-to-Mark on FontForge
I think that I have understand. Since FF first uses the base compound glyph (glyph + Diaeresis) and then adds the second diacritic (Macron), I actually have to place the Base Mark not on the Combinin…1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Nick, you are still suggesting “data copying of font outlines” would happen. I would argue that this is not what is happening now with Stable Diffusion, nor is it what I am suggesting as far as a fon…2 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Eltra Corp vs Ringer (1978) suggests to me that processing bitmap typefaces with ML Transformers is not subject to copyright in the USA: neither inputs nor outputs. Just personal speculation. And the…3 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
That's a very interesting question, given that Google Fonts use a copyleft license, the Open Font License (OFL). A rare few are Apache2. The OFL requires all derivative work to carry the same license…1
