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Re: PowerPoint: Please vote for OpenType Feature support eg. Kerning
It definitely should not be taken as an excuse: it is a bizarre situation in which a bad piece of software becomes incredibly successful, such that it is never replaced by something better, but conti…1 -
A font tester made by ChatGPT
I know some of you have interested in ChatGPT. I have been testing what I can do with it. Ask it to write Python scripts for Glyphs App and so on. During the experiments, I made a Font Tester. It was…2 -
Re: Font weights not being recognized by Mac OS Ventura
I think I found a possible reason. The Regular and the Medium were both named (Regular). It did not affect the use of the fonts in Mac OS Monterey but it did cause problems in Mac OS Ventura. I used …1 -
Re: Font weights not being recognized by Mac OS Ventura
What I mean is: when I go to install (JohnDoe Medium) in Fontbook it does not seem to recognize the difference between the different weights. When I try to install the regular, bold, semibold it seem…1 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
A couple further thoughts on this topic. I’d say “design for screens” used to be approached completely differently because of the hardware. Screens used to be relatively predictable. Those tasked wit…11 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
Especially prior to the introduction of the “Retina” high-res screen, we tended to standardize x-height and overshoot by means of alignment zones. Similarly, stem widths were standardized (and still …1 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
It’s only tangentially related to the subject here, but I wouldn’t discount how early Adobe Originals were designed to conform to the limitations of PostScript and low-resolution printers. Especially…3 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
A lot of case studies exist regarding design of type for reading on screen, but I am not aware of a single, comprehensive resource. I am going to second the recommendation to look at the design proce…1 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
Speaking of outlines designed around bitmaps, here is an ugly thing we made in 1998: a TTF for a terminal emulator, targeting a specific ppem size and reproducing the shapes of the client’s older, an…2 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Of course, no prediction of the future can be “true”, but don’t you think that there is a strong likelihood that the warnings of Aza and Tristan about what could go wrong due to AI, will go wrong? Ha…3
