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Re: Did the printing press actually create more jobs for scribes - > AI today
@"Cory Maylett" has summed up the issue better than I probably ever could. To answer your question, - I have recently had much work from companies that thought they can let the marketing te…1 -
Re: Wishing fit curves was a thing in illustrator
P.S. I just realized that what I showed in my previous post is a special case (where the handles have to be the same absolute length to be harmonized—circle). There is a workaround for the general ca…1 -
Re: Wishing fit curves was a thing in illustrator
Anyway, to everyone else wondering, there are lettering projects that are incredibly complex and have a lot of points (properly-placed points, mind you) that either slow down glyphs or make the proce…3 -
Re: Wishing fit curves was a thing in illustrator
If I get it right, the Path Scribe (part of VectorScribe) does it simply. 1. Select the path 2. In PathScribe Panel click "Select All Handles on Selected Paths" 3. The panel automatically t…1 -
Re: Elongation of Hebrew letters at the end of the row
Just passing by to leave a note for future me and some of my type friends: there is a good amount of handwritten Hebrew in the 2016 vlog of the Youtube channel "Flux Academy" :). I am curre…1 -
Re: Latin without Cross Sign and Arabic Without Dots
Since he presented two opposing possibilities, that is not actually an illuminating answer.Why do people use typefaces which resemble the script of a different language?The most common reason is to …1 -
Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
@"Alex Visi" It’s not a difference in the term (time period) of the license per se, but in the term of exclusivity. Lifetime license either way, usually. It depends on who the client is, an…1 -
Re: Thickness preference for crossbars of high contrast typeface
Thick crossbar is the artifact of the broad nib pen held at an angle, typical for ‘old-style’ or ‘humanist’ styles with a diagonal contrast. Not only it’s thick, but often also slanted, and can form …1 -
Celebrating 25 Years of High-Logic!
High-Logic is proud to celebrate 25 years in business as an independent font software vendor. Join the party, and receive a 25% discount for the next 25 days! It all started with a font editor (FontC…4 -
Re: The Six Basic Typefaces of Massimo Vignelli
Here’s more about his “few basic typefaces”. It helps to remember that Vignelli was a modernist and a purist. For his 1991 iteration of this edict he was mainly responding to the explosion of experim…4
