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Re: Vertical metrics standards
Stephen Nixon's TypeLab 2026 presentation titled 'Type Metrics' is currently available to watch on YouTube via this link. Please note that this link is temporary and may not work if yo…1 -
I made a concept of really different type design software
I'm looking for few brave man or woman to play with extremely irritating app. I made this concept app to proof myself it works or not and after few days of shouting on myself and crying discover…1 -
Re: Circled zero. Any real-world use cases?
Yes, for constructed multi-digit circled numbers I use a feature with .init, .medi and .fina glyphs, so things like circled 12, 356, 1024, or longer numbers can be built automatically. What I’m wond…1 -
Re: State of the art in AI font generation — Simon Cozens
Simon's talk at our Fonts&AI conference was excellent and we uploaded it this week for public viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8xukQSnynk This is a highly complex and rightly contro…3 -
Re: Circled zero. Any real-world use cases?
Searching for the query on Google reveals that, at least in terms of PDFs that are visible online, the overwhelming use case for the circled digit 0 is in rating scales starting at 0, for questionnai…6 -
Re: Circled zero. Any real-world use cases?
I often see them used in instruction manuals to refer to parts on a diagram. There are specialty circled numeral fonts that go up to 999999. Musicians and architects seem to be the main buyers.4 -
State of the art in AI font generation — Simon Cozens
I am super impressed with this article from Simon Cozens explaining where AI font generation is currently at, with tons of references. Yes, this is aside from whether any of this is a good idea, ethi…5 -
Re: Best practice for kerning?
Some of those asterisked pairs are the examples, i.e., are used on their own. ⟨Hg⟩ and ⟨Pb⟩, for instance, are the chemical symbols for mercury and lead respectively (of course, they can also be use…4 -
Re: Best practice for kerning?
Kent, I remember (in the 1960s) hand-setting ATF Baskerville italic with similar overhangs that you show.1 -
Re: I made a concept of really different type design software
I updated little bit a page, and made an ”O”. It's painful, but only for first glyphs. https://typoland.com/Movies/O.mp42
