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Re: MATH table in Fontlab 7
The MATH editor tool is nice as it provides a visual UI but be warned, it's clunky and contains bugs which result in the application crashing. Still, better than nothing.1 -
Re: A new social network for type people: typo.social (@Mastodon)
By some reason I do not receive the authentification email, anybody have experienced the same issue?2 -
Re: Monospace Font Spacing
While on the subject of test words, here a couple of mono-space tricky samples from Finnish, which has a bunch of uncommon (in English anyway) double-vowels and double-consonants:2 -
Re: AI-Generated Art and Copyright Infringement
I’ve not yet registered US design patents—or gone through the equivalent Canadian industrial design registration—for our library fonts, but some of our clients have registered design patents for type…1 -
Re: Monospace Font Spacing
1. There isn’t a single, standard approach to spacing monospaced or fixed-width typefaces, because there isn’t a single approach to their design. The important thing to bear in mind is that because t…6 -
Re: AI-Generated Art and Copyright Infringement
It was a lower court, yes, but has the benefit of Judge White’s investigation of the technology and subsequent summary judgement being remarkably thorough. He didn’t rely on inapplicable analogues, a…2 -
Re: A new social network for type people: typo.social (@Mastodon)
Elon Musk: the unwanted U2 album of billionaires.5 -
Re: A new social network for type people: typo.social (@Mastodon)
Thanks for spreading the word, Igor. I stopped posting on Twitter in late 2022. I can’t justify participating in a platform with ownership that is so untrustworthy and destructive. More importantly, …5 -
Re: Monospace Font Spacing
Here’s a good test word: mammillaria Also: Ammunition And: David Hemmings I’m sure you can find some words that you like—in fact, searching for “worst case scenario” test words, and comparing your de…2 -
Re: Monospace Font Spacing
Letters (other than quite symmetrical ones) are not centered in their advance width (i.e. have different sidebearings) because mathematically identical sidebearings will not result in optically even …4
