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Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
I find the idea of a perfect chair absurd in the extreme. How can something outside of the abstract realm of math even be objectively perfect?3 -
Re: Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)
OPTI is a label used by Castcraft (also/previously known as Typefounders of Chicago and Type Films of Chicago) for digital fonts they produced around the early 1990s. My understanding is that virtual…10 -
Re: Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)
Castcraft was notorious in the sixties and seventies for pirating film fonts for headline setting machines, such as the Typositor. They would acquire a film fonts from franchisees of VGC (who also ma…7 -
Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
It is certainly tempting to think that we aspire to draw the ideal form of every character, specially when it comes to typefaces for running text. So if I am doing a Renaissance typeface, my (never r…1 -
Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
The needs that typefaces are intended to fulfill, the expressive characters of different shapes, and the genres of type design are all so multiform that talk of a singular perfect ideal strikes me as…7 -
Re: Applications without OpenType feature support
Also, I think Affinity tools remain sadly lacking in any complex script support, and with no easy path to adding it due to insistence on making their own text engine instead of utilising HarfBuzz.3 -
Re: Practica: 6- and 15-week online type design courses
I haven't participated in Practica, but I have seen Nicole Dotin's teaching abilities in motion: In a type design course I teach at my university, I have hired her as an outside expert to o…1 -
Re: Variable Fonts In Use
Goodhertz uses variable fonts so extensively that they developed an open-source engine that can animate them. In Tupe, they used a variable font to communicate the level of the effects. More subtly, …3 -
Re: Monotype Foundry Support Irresponsibility
Based on both my experience and feedback from a colleague, I've noticed that increasing the frequency of your requests can lead to quicker response times. However, it's crucial to maintain …1 -
Re: Is using diacritics as a design choice in bad taste?
For example, I am mostly getting my inspiration from The Land, which is a marketing campaign done by a German state. They use the umlaut (I think I got that right) and bright yellow as "tradema…1
