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Re: Eyeball font identification party trick strategies
For me, font ID has always been kind of a gestalt thing, like recognizing someone's face. Even so, I do rely on certain unique attributes for some typefaces, like that dreadful R in Arial. These tend…3 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
WOFF, OTF, TTF. They all get used on violating websites. The format is not important to the topic. I would also like to say that I'm very happy with being a part of Adobe Type, and the revenue we're …4 -
Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
Most of my fonts are available via AdobeFonts through the AdobeCC. Over that past six months I have discovered that widespread misunderstanding of the AdobeType license is causing me to loose a very …11 -
Re: Empirical Statistics of Font/Glyph Metrics
Because of the difficulty in duplicating line breaks with layout application “paragraph composers”, I would recommend that the software be set up to “fix” the first and last words in the line, then s…1 -
Re: Dalton Maag is recruiting
I have a master on type design, and I've being working from 2015 making typefaces. I've being Project Manager at the Studio for two years now. I don't make half what they offer for the not senior job…2 -
Re: Type Design Project Opinion
Possibly also in the relative thickness of diagonal arms, and crossbar of f and t. It is a tricky task, though.1 -
Re: Empirical Statistics of Font/Glyph Metrics
In case there is a technical terminology language difference issue here: justification in the sense to which Nick refers is margin alignment on both left and right, so typically involving adjustments…2 -
Re: Dalton Maag is recruiting
I work with collaborators in various countries around the world, and I always try to pay everyone the same amount—at least proportionally to the overall budget of individual projects—, regardless of …12 -
Re: Kern pair dump script
Also, you can use this https://github.com/impallari/Contextual-Kerning-Tool1 -
Re: Kern pair dump script
I have one for fontlab5 that export the advanced widths and the kerning pairs to txt https://github.com/impallari/Impallari-Fontlab-Macros/blob/master/IMP%20Specimens/Get%20Data%20for%20Specimen.py C…1
