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Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
I'm particularly impressed with the “toilet seat” lettering in that it echoes the pen strokes of the accompanying artwork. I wonder what fonts (if any) the system uses as models.5 -
Re: Monotype Foundry Partners
For me, this is a nicer way to say that from now on 25% is the foundry's share and 75% is Monotype's. That's how they imagine the future...5 -
Re: calculating word space
The CSS word-spacing property seems poorly conceived, and I wonder if its existence contributed to or is symptomatic of the thinking that led browser makers to apply OpenType Layout at the word-by-wo…1 -
Re: Would you recommend being a type designer?
I began focusing on type in 2004, when I was an undergraduate in a prestigious Graphic Design undergraduate course in London. Like many others who have posted here, I went on to do a postgraduate cou…1 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
2 months later, I wonder, if any progress has been made :) This year's closing session of TypeCon announced a new SoTA led type recognition competition, that seemed to me from what I heard in t…1 -
Re: Private Use Area for ligatures and alternates
You just break search, spell checkers and hyphenation when using PUA. And people will see garbage when your font is not available. If you stylistic alternate glyphs are more important than all that...4 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
New and improved “pseudo-random” feature!1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
The type shown on https://ideogram.ai looks very promising.2 -
Re: Ergonomics for designers
I am only on my second home-office Aeron in ~ 25 years, and the first one only broke because I did something really extremely stupid. I don’t remember why, but I really threw myself into it, super ha…2 -
Re: Type Business Strategy
There's really only one sound rule - Have and use a great EULA. Grant uses fairly but restrict larger uses where the font adds value which needs to be captured. We've fine-tuned ours since …7
