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Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
I also made a spreadsheet for doing copyfitting, yet another happily forgotten task of designers before desktop publishing.4 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
In the brief period between the introduction of the Mac and the advent of desktop publishing and apps like PageMaker, I made this Microsoft Multiplan spreadsheet (September 1984) to calculate "m…8 -
Re: 123RF
No, and I would not consider doing so. A buyer can currently buy one of your fonts for as little as $7.50USD or maybe less. Their site makes it appear that they control pricing, not you.2 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q2
When I started adding OT features in the mid-2000s, there were some popular apps, like MS Office and Flash, with poor or nonexistent OT support. So I made "supplemental" fonts where certain…2 -
Re: METAFONT in 2023: "Nupuram" (Malayalam) typeface by Santhosh Thottingal
@"Linus Romer" , It is not related. That project is work in progress from what I understand. There is no font released. It uses fontforge to import outlines from an SVG generated from metap…6 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
Spec'ing type to run around an irregular shape (photo, art, whatever)—especially when the text had to fill a certain amount of area—was a dark art. Today, the computer can do it interactively as…4 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
The biggest difference between then and now: there were two quite distinct photo-technologies, one for display (with quite large glyph images, on a 2-inch film strip) and one for text, with much smal…3 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
Mark. That was my favorite thing to do at the type shop.3 -
Re: Type Design Hardware?
In the preparation of technical drawings, yes, sometimes. It is important to remember that ‘type design’ means different things in different technologies. Today’s typical digital approach, which meld…1 -
Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
Plato is here in the middle in pink, holding his Timaeus and gesturing with a finger towards the ideal serif typeface.1
