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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 -
Re: Language-specific considerations/best practices
I think that makes sense if one is supporting large character sets that cover African languages as well as European ones. African use of the letter, in its (1) form, is much more widespread than any …1 -
Re: Type Design Project Opinion
Regarding your latest regular weight, the relationship between the thins and thicks, to me, seems a bit haphazard. For example, the middle horizontal strokes of the a and e are different thicknesses.…4
