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For me Designing Type seemed very helpful for about a month when I first started learning to draw type, haven’t opened it since. It’s in a way a condensed substitute/supplement for just looking at a … (View Post)

(Quote) If you convert text to outlines and then modify the outlines in Illustrator to create the individual wordmarks/logos, that would be fine and permitted by pretty much any font license. In that… (View Post)

Good stuff, it’s quite uncommon to see these more organic and interesting German display stuff being revisited these days. My interest on this subject actually emerges from many years ago when I was … (View Post)

Katy: (Quote) I think you might be answering your own question. The reason the OFL is so consistent is that it very adequately addresses one specific way of releasing a font: it doesn’t need to chang… (View Post)

@"John Hudson" yes, but: Just because you can put literally anything in a license doesn't mean that it is enforceable in a court. I think it was House Industries who used to have a "yo… (View Post)

An artifact of fitting it on a linotype matrix  (View Post)

A fairly common scenario: many customers will use their smartphones to open your newsletters and then check your website / fonts. I was also told that type enthusiasts sometimes go to the extent of c… (View Post)

From my perspective, having a mobile experience is about removing friction. If I’m on my phone and go to a foundry’s website, I am going there for a reason. It might be because, like Ramiro said, I c… (View Post)

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Not true. Emboldening the capital strokes is a nearly universal convention actually. In my copy of Gill Sans, for example, the stem weight of the /H is 200 units and that of the /h 1… (View Post)

A few more integrated solutions have popped up recently. Not endorsing, just listing. https://www.fontdue.com/ https://foundrycore.tipografia.com.ar/ https://www.slonline.sk/portfolio/slonline/elefon… (View Post)