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(Quote) You can't have a union unless you're employees. Organisation to protect or extend the interests of independent type designers and foundries would constitute a cabal and be contrary to antitru… (View Post)

Over the years, I've come to the conclusion that there is usually no good reason to make the tail of the /j extend very far to the left. Not only does it cause problems with /g, it is also literally … (View Post)

A few years back, one of the last major projects I drove while still working on text/fonts at Microsoft was to make it possible for fonts to be sold in the Microsoft online Store. Now, this was manda… (View Post)

Here's a litmus test: Any foundry you would not trust to review your design confidentially you should not trust to do business with should they accept your submission. (View Post)

"Semi-Medium" is odd because "Medium" already suggest halfway between "Regular" and "Bold", albeit more ambiguously than "Semibold". (Phil Martin did… (View Post)

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 It's interesting, because to me, the prevalence of web/cloud fonts represents a sort of "one step forward, two steps back" for small outfits. It's technically possible for… (View Post)

@"Matthijs Herzberg" Thank you for demonstrating that I wasn't clear. This is going to be a long post. Apologies. To speak very plainly, Monotype's way of reselling font licenses is more da… (View Post)

Monotype appears to be leaving rivals in the dust if you're looking at traditional desktop license sales. My fonts are available through several distributors including MyFonts and Fonts.com. And if I… (View Post)

@"Matthijs Herzberg" Thank you for your answer. I asked because this thread felt a bit like it was coming from a journalist and I wanted to know if that was the case before giving a substan… (View Post)

Ross and I spent some time in 2018 testing a lot of different AR/VR devices, looking at how type rendered in them, and then went away and worked on a test variable font to address some of the issues … (View Post)