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Re: A FontLab 6 intervention

August 2016

Tired of constant FL 5.04 (build 48 something something / Mac) crashes, I jumped over to RoboFont and than Glyphs a few years ago. From my point of view, 50 % of Glyphs success is almost 24/7 custome…

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Re: Dyslexie font - activism

Cory Maylett

August 2016

I have a specific type of dyslexia (or a close cousin of it) called dyscalculia, which mainly affects one's ability to process numerical relationships. Unlike the more familiar dyslexia, dyscalculia …

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Re: Dyslexie font - activism

James Puckett

August 2016

Attaching the name of your employer to that font only keeps the junk science alive. The editor who approved this book needs to be given some well informed reading material before that awful paragraph…

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OpenType SVG color fonts coming to Windows 10 :)

Adam Twardoch

March 2016

During the keynote talk at the Microsoft Build conference, at 2:22:51 Kevin Gallo showed a slide outlining the new developer-related features of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update that will ship in th…

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Re: Dyslexie font - activism

Nick Shinn

August 2016

While I am skeptical of such typefaces, I suspect that there may be a “placebo” effect (as long as they aren’t significantly harder to read). In other words, knowing that a typeface has been specific…

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Re: Dyslexie font - activism

James Puckett

August 2016

My hypothesis is that the anecdotal success of Dyslexie is a combination of the placebo effect and disfluency enhancing reading comprehension. The reader expects Dyslexie to be easier to read so conf…

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Re: OpenType SVG color fonts coming to Windows 10 :)

Ray Larabie

July 2016

I'm not too interested in color, but I'm looking forward to transparency and gradients that this technology could enable. There are certain effects that can't be done with hard black and white shapes…

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