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I'm also not comfortable with nom de plumes in this forum. I respect and support Joyce's decision, although I am going to chime in because I think this is a very important idea, bigger than any one p… (View Post)

As an independent type designer, but also independent contractor for Google Fonts, but also creator of Type.World, I’m both included in this group, as well as excluded, as well as part of the solutio… (View Post)

There's not really a good hardcopy book on font engineering, (well, there's Fonts and Encodings but it's a bit dated and I wouldn't say it's easy to follow) but I am writing an online book which shou… (View Post)

I must have participated in group discussions about this very subject more than a dozen times over the past 20 years. James is right. It always starts with a mission statement. Find out what everyone… (View Post)

I think it’s fine that @"Die in-dryfoun" doesn’t use their name. They’re just getting the ball rolling, not claiming to be a leader. In a way, it’s nice, as their’s no ego involved (for tho… (View Post)

This is actually a serious proposal. Die in-dryfoun is well-known and respected in the industry, by his given name. I propose that anyone who has designed and published four typefaces be eligible for… (View Post)

I don’t know who @"Die in-dryfoun" is, but I have an idea whom it might be. It doesn’t seem particularly relevant, though, because we’re not signing up to anything: we’re discussing ideas a… (View Post)

On the subject of what an association can and cannot do within the constraints of anti-trust laws, the first thing any association or even ad hoc organisation of type foundries certainly could do is … (View Post)


So this happened at the two ATypI sessions too: the problem with discussions of power and imbalance in the font industry - which is a problem that is difficult to articulate and even more di… (View Post)

Respectfully @"John Hudson" Font Bros has already been doing this for years and at the highest royalty rate for foundries at 65% which has never changed since our founding. (View Post)