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Re: Merchant of Alphabets
Simon is quite correct. I have had experience with major publishing houses demanding rights payments on expired works. They will try to get whatever they can, even if they have no legal right to do s…5 -
MyFonts and families
Have any of you with families on myFonts noticed a drastic reduction in sales since Monotype started pushing their subscription service? Before they took over my family sales were pretty healthy, now…5 -
Re: Using emoji cuts my post off
It affects any character outside BMP not just emoji. Actually thanks to emoji many software now has better Unicode support as software developers can’t dismiss requests to support characters outside …6 -
Re: OpenType labels in software
Having both doesn't break anything. I've been including both for as long as I've been making OpenType fonts.6 -
Re: Type Network
I'm on TypeNetwork now, too. :)12 -
Re: Merchant of Alphabets
Alerting a large publishing company to the fact that one of their works is interesting to a bunch of people but may be out of copyright might end up being counterproductive...7 -
Re: The Value of a Font Buyout
[correction] Renewal fee on this project was 68% of original fee (on another project it had been 1:1, but in that case the original fee was lower). We proposed 4.5x the 3-year renewal fee for the buy…11 -
Re: The Value of a Font Buyout
We recently encountered an almost identical situation: fonts were licensed for 3-year exclusive use, renewable for a further 3-years for an additional fee. When the client expressed the desire to pur…11 -
Copy and scale uppercase kerning to small caps with a script
One more simple Robofab script to copy and scale uppercase kerning to small caps. With the 'factor' variable you can decide how much the kerning should be reduced to better fit small caps. **Warning*…6 -
Re: Berthold bullies competing font producers – report here when you’re hit by them
Naw, this was Berthold and Monotype behavior years before the election.8
