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I wanted to hear from practicing type designers and other folks working in type professionally, on what they think has happened with money in type. I had a few questions: https://www.surveymonkey.com… (View Post)

Yes, can we get a better version of Alright Sans? :'( This one has empty glyphs for dotless i, pi, and probably a whole lot of other glyphs, plus it has no Vietnamese, no Greek and Cyrillic, not to m… (View Post)

Over in the 'Latinised Greek' discussion, @"Nikola Kostic" asked (Quote) Here are some images from Vervliet's Cyrillic & Oriental Typography in Rome at the End of the Sixteenth Century:… (View Post)

My opinion as a native Greek is this: Latinization is the use of z for zeta, n for eta, p for rho, x for chi and inverted y for lambda. More or less that's it. Artistic choices is not latinization. S… (View Post)

(Quote) Are you sure about this? I licensed fonts from both libraries back in the nineties. In comparing Bitstream vs Linotype digitizations of the same faces, the data does not match, not even the m… (View Post)

It may be helpful to identify the legal concern that some parties, notably Adobe, had regarding the old Code Morale and antitrust legislation. It isn't the existence of an ethical behaviour policy pe… (View Post)

This sounds like a rather old text, relating to a time long gone, when a proprietary font format worked with one typesetting system but not another one. ATypI, in case that its mission happens to be … (View Post)

For the copyright symbol, there would be no special symbols required, because it's not contextual. sub parenleft C parenright by copyright ; If it were in a contextual feature, the names of all the g… (View Post)

I always manage the ordering of glyphs, usually in some way that I hope will be intuitive to users but mostly helpful to myself and collaborators during development. Every font project I work on begi… (View Post)

FWIW: Appending "VF" or "Variable" to the family name could be problematic for customers: e.g. I have a variable font and author a doc then send it to you, who has the static font… (View Post)