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Re: Two articles about Monotype’s busines travails and HR practices
Two things stood out to me: Aging customer base. We burned millions (on AI) and got nothing.6 -
Re: Capital Eng
The automatic emoji replacement suggests that B is the cooler option, though.6 -
Re: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future?
People have explained to you multiple times that no data leaves your computer and all processing is done locally. I really don't understand what's going on. Again, I'm not forcing you to use it. If y…5 -
Re: Help Typedrawers find a new home
We use discourse for our forum. And I’m very happy with it. We self host on a Hetzner server for less than 4 € per month. And I checked some time ago and there is an importer for vanilla forums.7 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
I’ve had personal experience that suggests otherwise. Someone passed copywriting to me that was obviously generated by a chat bot. I see plenty of other folks doing the same: using AI as a replacemen…5 -
Re: What are 'true italics'?
Dictionaries are not encyclopedias, and therefore always give generalisations meant for the general public, instead of giving the most accurate definition meant for professionals. (Stating that Aldus…5 -
Re: How "beta" is OTVar font format?
I expect that if you are using a later release of FL 8 it should be pretty solid. (Not that I know anything specifically wrong earlier!) Of course, if you are looking for a variable font that works i…5 -
Two articles about Monotype’s busines travails and HR practices
[Disclaimer: I can’t vouch for the accuracy of these reports, but they come across as well-researched and informed. As far as I can tell, these arise out of Monotype India, but discuss the impact on …9 -
Re: Lithuanian localization
We need to be extra careful with these kind of features. This Lithuanian dictionary notation is used in linguistic works and hasn’t always been clear on what form (dotted or not) is preferred. @"…7 -
Re: Lithuanian localization
So this is a little complicated. There is indeed a convention in Lithuanian typography that when accents are applied to the lowercase i, e.g. to mark stress in a dictionary, the dot is retained, unli…8
