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Chris Simpkins has passed away
I'm sadly posting here to share the news that Chris Simpkins, who had a successful career as an organ transplant surgeon before establishing himself as a font engineer, initially through his Hack pro…5 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
"It is not hard to grasp the basic shittiness of pretending someone else’s work is yours." It's also not hard to grasp the basic shittiness of restricting other people's natural freedoms. W…5 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
Metrics alone have not been considered to be protected as intellectual property anywhere, to date, as far as I know. Personally, I am OK with this. But not everyone is. That said, we have seen in the…5 -
Re: What AI tools does the font community need?
I would like an AI assistant that I can ask questions in basic English and it tells me which scripts and plugins are currently able to help me achieve my task. I have no capacity to stay up to date o…5 -
Re: Blatant rip-off: a story
Some examples with Xillian in the background and Proza Display Bold on the foreground. My guess is that the small differences in curvature or node placement are mostly due to rounding and scaling up/…5 -
Re: W3C Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) is now a candidate recommendation
The Patch Map Table is added when the font is prepped for Incremental Font Transfer, so this is a server side operation, prior to serving the first part of the font.* IFT has taken a really long time…6 -
W3C Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) is now a candidate recommendation
Big news for web fonts (especially CJK) https://www.w3.org/news/2025/w3c-invites-implementations-of-incremental-font-transfer/8 -
Re: Blatant rip-off: a story
I commented this at the Behance page This is a blatant ripoff of Proza Display Bold. Some letters contain small changes (e.g. e, w), some are an exact copy (e.g. z), and some have been butchered into…5 -
Blatant rip-off: a story
Hi people! I saw a van with a logo that looked like it used my Proza Display. I like it when my typefaces are used. I was happy. I checked their website and saw that my typeface had been butchered. I…5 -
Re: How much bigger do you like to make your x-height for Bold?
Sometimes I shorten the descenders in the bold by roughly the same amount I raise the x-height. I think I’ve seen this approach in some of Luc de Groot’s typefaces, though I could be wrong, maybe @&q…6
