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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…5 -
Re: How much bigger do you like to make your x-height for Bold?
As with everything else in type design, this is properly considered relative to size. The larger the text, the less need for this kind of adjustment and, indeed, as you observed in logo work it may b…5 -
Re: Recommendations: Major Font Distributors
Enterprise sales should be an à la carte service provided to font makers by distributors, and the cut to the distributor should be negotiated on a case-by-case basis with the onus on the distributor …5 -
Re: How much bigger do you like to make your x-height for Bold?
I look at a paragraph of U&lc Regular weight text, with a couple of words picked out in Bold. If the Bold appears to have a smaller x-height than the Regular, I adjust the x-height until they loo…7 -
Re: How much bigger do you like to make your x-height for Bold?
Robert Slimbach made the caps smaller in the bolder weights instead of increasing their x-height. At least, that was his practice in the early oughts when I was getting feedback on Hypatia Sans (whic…6 -
Re: What AI tools does the font community need?
Nobody “needs” AI or asked for it. Why embrace something so disastrous for humanity and the planet, for all the “productivity” it may produce? —Richie Havens, Little by Little.5
