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Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
@"John Hudson" I'm sorry for starting an off topic tangent. If this explanation isn't enough, lets start a new thread. Essentially, the risk of violation is reverse correlated to the size o…5 -
Re: Language-specific considerations/best practices
Pairs with repeated i and diacritics (like ïï) are a sure bet for positive kerning. I also expand this to include l, j, and Latin iota. In South American and African languages, there are several enco…3 -
Re: Eyeball font identification party trick strategies
You may recognize it, but can you put a name to it? The initial-letter prompting strategy for remembering names: Go through the alphabet letter by letter, imagining that the particular letter you’re …1 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
@"k.l." and @"Miles Newlyn" The reason not to do my edit is that it's complicated to implement in exactly the kind of way that makes lawyers nervous. It would have had to say some…5 -
Re: Finally decided to properly organize my fonts by category, and I'm having a bit of a hard time.
I did a sorting project for my use and simply went with the name of the most famous representative font from each style. If it's an open sans, it's a Meta. If it's a square sans, it's a Eurostile. Th…3 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
I'd be interested to see more 'boring' fonts! Also, I've been thinking that AI might be relatively good at creating different weights, widths, or optical sizes based on a well-designed base font, but…3 -
AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
I made my first AI experiment. I wanted to explore if it was possible to create new alphabets by providing only the Art Direction, while leaving the Execution to the computer. In this particular expe…1 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
Thats why the original Typekit license was not terribly controversial. Whether it’s a customer’s website or a client of the customer, all the web traffic (pageviews) for that customer’s account will…1 -
Re: Finally decided to properly organize my fonts by category, and I'm having a bit of a hard time.
Yes, of course there are many betters ways, and they are all fabulous! But thats depends of your persona, for example: This was Me, 20 years ago. I was totallly new to fonts: (3 categories was ok for…5 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
I don't see anything than classic piracy here. Adobe doesn't provide webfonts for self hosting like font.com did, but only the code to embed. If there are unlicensed woff files on a server, it means…2
