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Re: Is the font design business profitable for you guys?
The MyFonts search results are garbage because designers can add irrelevant tags that affect search results. So some keywords are just doomed to return garbage results.4 -
Re: Seeking Advice and Help from Type Techies
First, you need to confirm license permission to use and to modify the font. Just because a font is available for free download somewhere on the Web does not mean it is legitimately available under a…2 -
Re: Tamil Troubles
Tamil script requires an OpenType Layout shaping engine, and the implementation may have a Tamil- or Indic-specific engine. It's possible that the shaping engine for Tamil doesn't support discretiona…2 -
Re: Enabling stylistic sets (e.g. ss02) with fonttools
Adam's OTF Feature Freezer might do what you want.3 -
Re: This should be an Interesting discussion - where do YOU draw the line.
I never draw the line over a scan of somebody else’s work.4 -
Re: My book is out!
Congratulations! That's quite the opening chapter, too. Now I'll have to buy the book to find out how the "Cradle Will Rock" situation played out.1 -
Re: Is the font design business profitable for you guys?
Now, see, I have a problem with this. Sure, there is a relationship between promotion and sales. But the entire point of reseller sites is that people go to them and search for something that fits th…6 -
Re: Figma supports variable fonts!
Now THIS is good news! I wish more design software/app manufacturers would follow suit. Its about time.1 -
Re: This should be an Interesting discussion - where do YOU draw the line.
I don’t do the most wildly original stuff but I would definitely drawn the line at tracing something that’s only a few years old. There’s old metal type and lettering I can rip off that’s only got a …4 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Typo: I meant ‘with the limited and far from entirely successful...’ Twenty years on, there are still plenty of users who have zero engagement with OpenType Layout features, and plenty of design scho…3
