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Re: Tironian et ⁊ in Garamond
@"Tofu Type Foundry" I added it for a specific request (github). It also appears in Gentium and according to the French Wikipedia it is used in the Juhuri language.1 -
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…4 -
Re: What AI tools does the font community need?
I think Spacing and Kerning should have 2 different definitions, not between spacings vs kerning, but as if both are one and the same thing. For the experienced type designer both spacing and kernin…1 -
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.2 -
Re: What AI tools does the font community need?
Indeed. Perhaps the better way to phrase the original question is "What are the parts of type design you don't enjoy?" Maybe some people enjoy kerning. But I don't know any.1 -
Re: Is a 1500 upm ok?
Nowadays any UPM value is technically fine. Note that fonts with higher UPM value have marginally bigger file sizes. It hardly matters, even in a web context, but it's worth noting. It's easy enough …1 -
Re: Recommendations on building a foundry website
Igor Petrovic said: Thanks. Despite being bad on many counts, the LLMs are usefull for us non programmers to code without going through the rigorous process of learning a programming language. The fo…1 -
Re: What AI tools does the font community need?
Oh I don’t know. Having a tool that lets me finish the work in a fraction of the time while still charging the same sounds very appealing.1 -
Re: Is a 1500 upm ok?
I follow 1000UPM wherever it is possible, because all reference numbers in a font (overshoot, stem thickness in thin and black master, etc.) are usually presented at that resolution (in my head and i…4 -
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
