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I'll echo this. Our lawyers didn't speak font licensing nuance* and mostly got involved on major font contracts ($10k+). The legal team will have clout, but the design/tech teams are the one… (View Post)

With regard to the separation of dots from base letter shapes, this is something we did in the Aldhabi project for Microsoft, and is common in nastaliq and other cascading style fonts where the dots … (View Post)

@"Max Phillips" - for future reference, you've just done it the hardest possible way. From a purely strategic standpoint, it's always better to stay away from lawyers and talk to the design… (View Post)

@"Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.)" A few years ago, MyFonts changed their policy in regards to free fonts. When MyFonts started, they allowed families which only contained free fonts. A few … (View Post)

Thanks for your constant advice on these matters, @JoyceKetterer. (View Post)

@"Max Phillips" find out if they have a license first. If they do, and you are the licensor, contact the person listed as the licensee contact and gently let them know it's not allowed (ass… (View Post)

That's too bad. I'm actually still using quite a few. By which I mean, I still have quite a few installed. I always thought it was kind of great that you could still use fonts made in the eighties on… (View Post)

Except the Mac Roman layout doesn’t use the left/right mnemonic. I wish it would. The mapping is: Alt+[ = “ Alt+Shift+[ =” Alt+]=‘ ALF+Shift+]=’ I really wish the layout were the much more mnemonic A… (View Post)

As I said in the original post, Adobe is not ending support in Acrobat, Acrobat Reader and Adobe Sign. And I just remembered a blog post I made on behalf of Adobe in 2005, talking about phasing out T… (View Post)

Hello all TypeDrawers members! This is a general announcement to state @"Jess McCarty" will be permanently stepping down as a TypeDrawers Moderator due to personal reasons. She expresses th… (View Post)