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at least in the US, antitrust laws are there to protect consumers, not competitors. I'm not a lawyer but can only guess monotype would successfully argue (and this honestly wouldn't even get… (View Post)

@"Frank Adebiaye" thanks for checking. I agree that monotype thinks Adobe is a rival. But they're wrong. The vast majority of our major sales are from customers who initially found the font… (View Post)


I noticed them in your recent PDF specimens, and I loved the "type in actual use" feel of these, especially since you treated them basically as photos. (View Post)


 Thank you! You'd actually be surprised how many people use the site to just play around with a part list for a build that they never end up building. There are also many members of our comm… (View Post)

So, that being the situation (with the Latin small caps harmonizing with the Latin lower case), perhaps it’s the Greek lower case that is too light? Greek lower case tends to be a bit on the light si… (View Post)

In letterpress anatomy the shoulder is the area below the baseline, more commonly referred to today as the descender space. (View Post)

I see hosted type retail options: LTTRSHOP, FoundryCore, Fontdue, and Elefont. Does anybody who uses these products care to comment on the experience of using one? (View Post)

I’m not even in the font business, but I must say that my opinion of many of Hoefler’s typefaces fell considerably in 2014 when H&FJ was "rebranded". (View Post)

@"John Hudson" I've been struggling to find a way to say what I want to say on the point of the treatment of staff. I'm afraid this will sound callous when in my heart my feeling is just th… (View Post)

hah - nope! very curious where you see issues vs. where/if I might defend the design if you'd care to share your thoughts :) two contextual caveats first: - first caveat: proportionally, those images… (View Post)