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Re: How does Unicode work?
I think you are reading a lot into what I wrote, and overlooked the tense: may have been used. Pushback on encoding tends to arise regarding historical characters, more from ignorance than discrimina…1 -
Re: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future?
There’s a web version of Fontspector that is probably the easiest way to work with it. If you want to install it locally, you can either grab binaries from the project release page or install using c…1 -
Re: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future?
So, this isn’t personally my project or anything, but I have been paying attention and use both tools. I also happen to be in regular meetings with the folks who do make those tools. 1) No, Fontbaker…1 -
Variable, color font as audio visualizer
The animation was created in search of new applications for variable, color fonts https://youtu.be/qAvhR4Owsxk1 -
Re: Palatino in book publishing
Indeed! Despite this, Zapf used Palatino in a few books before Aldus was available, including the very text-heavy Gutenberg-Jahrbuch for 1950, which had 444 pages. That was set in the Linotype versi…1 -
Re: Variable, color font as audio visualizer
Excellent work. We are yet to find out many uses of color and variable fonts. With a bit of css and JavaScript, I am trying to make a variable font help in training writing in Bangla in a website. ht…1 -
Re: font fragility and mid-word styling
Yes, I would agree with that statement. There are places in Unicode where the encoding choice puts too heavy a burden on glyph processing to resolve correct display of text (Mongolian is, to my mind,…1 -
Re: Palatino in book publishing
The German standard baseline went into effect during the first decade of the 20th century. One of Genzsch & Heyse’s directors had spent time working in the US as a young man during the late 19th…2 -
Re: Palatino in book publishing
Yes. A760 is SoftMaker’s name for Aldus. Letterform Archive has a scanned index card with the glyph set of the original foundry version. A760 has since been renamed to Alba.In a specimen for the grea…3 -
Re: Workshop Pricing
I have a spiel on pricing and pitching offers :) You could ask them four questions that will show you the full picture: * what they would not be willing to pay, because it was TOO CHEAP, such that th…3
