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This is why I chose to offer Proxima Vara as a separate typeface and at a lower price than the full Proxima Nova family, which it is related to. I think forcing people to buy a full family to get the… (View Post)

I find it interesting that this was brought up - but not much response on the issue - if anything what seems like a defensive response. I have had the same experience with Monotype. I came across a v… (View Post)

Those are people primarily involved in the making of fonts: not necessarily even in the selling of fonts—excepting Laurence, through his involvement as a developer on the original, pre-Monotype MyFon… (View Post)

Automation is king. Consider writing down all the bugs and problems you have and see if there are any patterns. Chances are repeatable issues can have an automated solution either with a script or ev… (View Post)

I think it's really hard to track status because making a font is a big thing and individual tasks vary so wildly in complexity and time commitment. But also because there are so many unknown unknown… (View Post)

It’s not something our standard license agreement covers. We classify it as an externally accessed server (as distinct from a server accessed only by employees or contractors of the license holder, w… (View Post)

@"Kris Sowersby" I’d argue that your lack of VF requests may also be due to you not really publicly engaging with the tech, as far as I can tell. I don’t have any formal data on it but woul… (View Post)

I seem to remember reading somewhere that the flat-topped 3 was sometimes called a "banker's 3". It was supposedly favoured in commerce because it was more difficult to change it by hand to… (View Post)

Back in the old days of typophile I remember the odd thread reminiscing/lamenting the death of MM/GX. That specific font tech was a few years before my time, but was usually summed up by “it was too … (View Post)

To be specific as to how new technology can create emergent possibilities, consider the pseudo-random effect. First, about 20 years ago, Robert Slimbach, while working at Adobe, was able to utilize h… (View Post)