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Re: Dalton Maag is recruiting
That seems overly optimistic for someone with years of experience unless you’re in NYC or NorCal.3 -
Re: Dalton Maag is recruiting
@"Hin-Tak Leung" Then I do not understand your expectations for DaMa's baseline salaries. In which percentile of UK salaries would you place full-time employed type professionals, who are (…1 -
Re: Dalton Maag is recruiting
@"KP Mawhood" as familiar or unfamiliar as the average person who lives in UK (SE England, not too far from London) for the past few decades, I think :smile: .1 -
Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
After Christian’s post, I decided to compare my derivative with its original, and was surprised how much I had changed. I suspect that what’s happened is that so much of my font making has been using…1 -
Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
The only time I did that was when I took Cormorant as the basis for Ysabeau. The two deliberately share proportions, since they're both essentially Garamonds.2 -
Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
For my original retail designs, I do usually start from scratch. However, I find that corporate clients who ask for custom designs generally want something that looks a lot like something else. In th…2 -
Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
I forgot to mention that, like Mark, I also sometimes start from one of my previous fonts, with a new idea. (I'm not a professionnal, I must add.)1 -
Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
I always start from scratch. With an idea to create something new!! The exceptions being revivals of 1900 fonts, scanned and digitized. Why reuse or repurpose existing fonts? There are tons and tons …1 -
Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
I almost never use my previous font projects in new font projects, unless they are related in some way. For example, I adapted my recent Proxima Sera from a draft of an unfinished face. I nearly alwa…4 -
Re: Why don't we hear about more use of variable fonts on the Web?
No, I recommend to provide all OpenType fonts (both non-variable and variable) for web use as both .woff and .woff2. You could argue if .woff is still needed, but it won't harm to provide it as well.…2