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Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Designer's doomsday is coming.2 -
Re: Finally decided to properly organize my fonts by category, and I'm having a bit of a hard time.
According to ‘a certain Chinese Encyclopedia’, The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, typefaces are divided into the following categories: * those used to typeset the words of the Emperor, *…7 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
I know exactly who you mean, Christopher. I second your last paragraph: she was fabulous! Presumably still is, in her latest role elsewhere. :)1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
I suppose some of them might be good as a starting point, then refined into something much better.2 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
@"k.l." and @"Miles Newlyn" The reason not to do my edit is that it's complicated to implement in exactly the kind of way that makes lawyers nervous. It would have had to say some…5 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
I don't see anything than classic piracy here. Adobe doesn't provide webfonts for self hosting like font.com did, but only the code to embed. If there are unlicensed woff files on a server, it means…2 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
@"John Hudson" I'm sorry for starting an off topic tangent. If this explanation isn't enough, lets start a new thread. Essentially, the risk of violation is reverse correlated to the size o…5 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
The opentype files that Adobe CC saves on your computer are not located or named super obviously, but they are neither hidden well. Adobe's syncher assigns them numeric file names, but aside from th…1 -
Re: Finally decided to properly organize my fonts by category, and I'm having a bit of a hard time.
I did a sorting project for my use and simply went with the name of the most famous representative font from each style. If it's an open sans, it's a Meta. If it's a square sans, it's a Eurostile. Th…3 -
Re: Language-specific considerations/best practices
Test words—as the phrase suggests—are useful for testing, but if one is trying to make a general purpose font, not targeting specific languages but able to cleanly display any language you throw at i…4
