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Re: What AI tools does the font community need?
I enjoy kerning. It is one of the easier tasks in font making, and is the stage at which one really starts to see all the parts of a design coming together (this is why, despite my best earlier effor…5 -
Re: What AI tools does the font community need?
While I wouldn't say I enjoy kerning, I prefer the results I get when I do it myself more than when I've tried automated kerning.5 -
Re: Is this a scam?
Sounds very normal. Make sure you are clear that their purchaser order / vendor portal / whatever T&Cs are null and void. Make them confirm in writing. They’re always completely insane. The bette…6 -
Re: What AI tools does the font community need?
I quite enjoy spacing and practise it with the best possible concentration, because it is a pivotal part of a design. I too enjoy kerning to some extend because it gives ‘the icing on the cake’ of sp…6 -
Re: New typeface character extension
For Latin language fonts (and probably all fonts), do not go too much by Unicode blocks. They are not a very useful thing in conceptualizing your character set. (And I say this as somebody who is a f…6 -
Re: Is a 1500 upm ok?
Back in 2008, when work first began on the Brill types, there was a known issue with some third party PDF tools and viewers incorrectly assuming that all CFF-flavour OpenType fonts would have a 1000 …5 -
Re: What AI tools does the font community need?
I’ve been thinking about this, and while I see the attraction of having a sophisticated algorithm do tedious work like this (but hopefully not some overstuffed LLM that consumes an ungodly amount of …7 -
Re: What AI tools does the font community need?
In my opinion, this crosses over into design, which is the one thing I wouldn’t trust automation to do. What’s left to the type designer to do, if not design? For me, developing the weighting scheme …10 -
Re: Jim Parkinson's obit in the NYT
https://typographica.org/on-typography/jim-parkinson-1941-2025/8 -
Re: ‘Grand Cru Classés’ sprouting from Antwerp soil
On Saturday, September 16, 2023, the annual graduation event of the Plantin Institute of Typography took place at Museum Plantin-Moretus, which radiates the typographic tradition that spans almost 60…5
