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Re: Letterform Innovation?
This one sentence has a lot to unpack. Slab serifs were regarded as freakish and abominable when it first appeared. Baskerville was feared as likely to hurt people. Innovations which we now see as fa…1 -
Re: Letterform Innovation?
In Swiss German maybe. ;)5 -
Re: Letterform Innovation?
The distinction between Ich-Laut [ç] and Ach-Laut [χ] is phonetic but not phonemic. I would argue that the usership is not served by observing purely phonetic distinctions, as many people wouldn'…4 -
Re: Is selling on MyFonts a good idea?
At the end of the day, no reseller is going to care about your fonts as much as you. Sure, you can take the gamble and hope that you get featured, which may or may not result in an increase in sales …5 -
Re: Is selling on MyFonts a good idea?
MyFonts Top 25 Bestsellers* Neue Helvetica® by Linotype * Gotham® by Hoefler & Co. * Helvetica® Now by Monotype * Avenir® by Linotype * Univers® by Linotype * Gilroy™ by Radomir Tinkov * Akzidenz…15 -
Re: Giving away fonts (typefaces)
It would be a better use of your time to just build a backlog of unpolished and unfinished work that you can go back and finish later when your skills are further developed, then sell those fonts.9 -
Re: Monotype New Contract ...Subscription Model, do the scary maths.
Monotype is obviously pushing a subscription model to compete with Adobe Fonts, which is similar in the sense that you get access to a large library of fonts when you are a Creative Cloud subscriber.…10 -
Re: Questions about Ikarus
you made me curious. i can not remember whether digitizing on VAX or mac. but it seems, the mac version was able to do it. you look at osx 10.4.11 / classic mode: i do not have a tablet and cursor. t…1 -
Re: Letterform Innovation?
Rotis (1988) pioneered the concept of a semiserif that sits between a sans and a serif a few years before. Woellmer’s Consul is an example for stylistic sets from 1903. Not necessarily the first of i…6 -
Re: Fontspring Joins Dribbble and Creative Market
It's intriguing to observe the strategic move of using Fontspring's capabilities to address the limitations of Creative Market. Creative Market's current model restricts the sale to on…1
