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Re: A new graphical editor for TrueType hints
So if I understand Denis’ workflow correctly, the TrueType UFO is never kept around, but reconverted from the cubic UFO if needed. FWIW, our workflow is somewhat different. We convert multiple master…1 -
Re: Your business is worth more than 6X yearly earnings
If we acknowledge that MANY human-made fonts are already enhanced using plugins and tools, then we can view AI as just another tool in our arsenal. There will always be a human involved in the proces…3 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Right now the experiments seem to be: the AI draws stuff, and the human decides how good it is. Even in the most exciting moments where it seems the AI is producing wholly unforeseen and original dev…5 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Those Cooper images are taken from: The Book of Oz Cooper, published by the Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago, in 1949.1 -
Re: Glyphs with "Too Many Points" - possible problems?
At some point it can even freeze your system. We recently had a customer with a font (quadratic curves) that made Windows choke. It had glyphs that had outlines with more than 20K points. https://for…2 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
@PabloImpallari Well, you might look a little further afield than the digital domain. Cooper Black originated in Oz’s lettering, which does not seem to have been traced over Bodoni! Cooper Black was …3 -
Re: Regular vs Book
@"Nick Shinn" The OpenType spec itself indicates that Regular and Normal share the same weightclass, 400. It does the same thing with ExtraBold and UltraBold (both 800), and Black and Heavy…2 -
Re: Glyphs with "Too Many Points" - possible problems?
Increase UPM scaling grid size?1 -
Re: Regular vs Book
In the digital era, Fontlab, for one, contributed to the confusion, by assigning the numerical value of 400 to all three of Book, Regular and Normal weights, in its Font Info dialogue. Therefore, if …2 -
Re: How to calculate other stem widths of masters from Regular weight
It is very much in the nature of the project, which might be determined by several factors: the particular design and how light and heavy it can practically be made, the kinds of uses for which the t…1
