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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 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
I have to admit I do have a visceral reaction to "blockchain" technologies, but... (posting this in the hope that it might help others with the same visceral reaction) before there was the …4 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
Sorry, my previous post was a bit all over the place. But I want to add another serious angle to the general discussion: My experience with Type.World was that everyone wanted to get served the perfe…5
