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​I just publish in TyMS (Typefaces Measure System) website my first thesis to share with the community, this thesis proposes a method so that the different weights (statics, masters and instances) of… (View Post)

When it comes to IKARUS, as known, the format is still under the hood of the DTL font-production applications, as briefly described here. The small development team in the picture on that web page is … (View Post)

John’s version is close. Except it was some person or people at Microsoft who were sure they needed 'sinf' to have subscripts on the baseline. Nobody at Adobe at the time (late 90s) had any clue why … (View Post)

Regarding the main question: if anyone wants to steal their fonts they will find a way to do that. Focus on doing the best possible job to help your paying customers find your fonts, like your fonts,… (View Post)

I would say that, in Britain and the United States, this flat-topped 8 was more common at the end of the 19th Century than in any other period. But, it could be early 18th Century. Without more conte… (View Post)

If you want to maximize your retail profits you need to market your work. You can be on every font vendor’s site and you’ll just disappear among tens of thousands of other fonts. I Love Typography is… (View Post)

unrelated to the latest experiment, I had a thought around beziers. could you do some kind of reinforcement learning on the autotraced outputs? I only have a cursory understanding of how this works, … (View Post)

> Also hats off to whoever added this animation to its “About” screen: That was @"Erik van Blokand". If you need it as a gif… (View Post)

Zuzana Licko’s first three font apps and the manual and system disks for the Mac Plus on which she designed her bitmap fonts: Among Emigre’s font development files at are a few pages from their bitma… (View Post)

 LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland said: Yeah I bet that was the issue. Just tried the 2.5 demo version on my SE/30 (which has FPU) and seems to run great: Also hats off to whoever added this … (View Post)