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Re: Finally decided to properly organize my fonts by category, and I'm having a bit of a hard time.
The grouping alongside the main historic styles is common practice and has some merits, but is also very limited. It can happen that Venetian and Textured apply to one typeface the same time. Or Blac…1 -
Re: Transparency, gradients
It's tricky because the complexity required to get any kind of smooth tone can cause apps to break, and even if you could make it work, you'd still get moiré effects. You can use a coarse halftone pa…2 -
Re: Transparency, gradients
In COLRv1 color fonts, you can define shapes with custom colors but also with the current text color. So, you could define a gradient from current color with no transparency to current color with ful…4 -
Re: Finally decided to properly organize my fonts by category, and I'm having a bit of a hard time.
I sort mine descending by license cost.1 -
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
