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Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
I remember using tissue paper over a photocopy of the art to spec irregular run arounds, ruling out lines with a pencil to match the line spacing, and then marking where line endings would go on each…7 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
Very clever Mark. I had no access to such tools (back then I didn't even know what a spreadsheet was). I just measured the width of each line as it met the art, calculated how many characters wo…1 -
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
