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Re: Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?
Aside: While traditionally italics are have been narrower than roman, reflecting the natural compression of more quickly written forms, these days there seems to be a trend towards less condensed ita…5 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
@"Patrick Griffin" If it were that simple, there would be no distribution platforms, at least not for foundries that have their own online licensing platforms integrated into their websites…3 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
Yeah, integrating Type.World into any self-hosted font site takes like a day for any web dev worth their salt. The documentation is exhaustive; I have a flask sample server that you just need to rewi…3 -
Re: Automatically Adjust Font Metrics to Match a Different Font Using `fonttools`
No such thing existed. The Office FontFonts were variants of their original designs with different spacing, different weights, and some detail modifications. They were supposed to render better on s…3 -
Re: Early access or beta releases à la futurefonts.xyz
I don’t want to speak for them but here’s my understanding as someone who has submitted type there: I’ve had projects rejected because they were too similar to projects that were already there. Uniqu…2 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
Thanks for taking the time to write-up your blockchain idea, @yanone. As you say, the fact that it involves blockchain might be the hardest sell, but from a first read—and I intend to read it several…2 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
I’m not sure how many here are gamers, but let me dispel this nonsense: Gamers *hate* anything crypto/blockchain related. There are very few actual games, let alone popular ones, that incorporate thi…5 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
Not here. That was on the typo.social Mastodon server and in other communication channels. Since you ask for technological solutions explicitly, I should indeed take the time to sketch out the blockc…5 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
I’m posting this here because John Hudson asked specifically for technical proposals, among other. I’ve been contemplating the below for quite some time, but in secret in fear of ridicule, and it fee…6 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
I doubt you'll see this kind of information made public, because it would make even a 20% platform cut seem like utter exploitation. But a little research and experience with this sort of thing allo…1
