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Re: Platform for Publishing Research Article
Also, it would be strange for a foundry or company to publish an article about somebody else’s view of some particular font production process. All of those companies have their own font production p…3 -
Re: Platform for Publishing Research Article
Google Fonts publishes articles on typography and type design, but it would need to be relevant to users and/or type designers within the Google Fonts ecosystem. You should contact Dave Crossland if …1 -
Re: Platform for Publishing Research Article
Google Fonts already has their own articles in this area: - https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/introducing_type/how_typefaces_are_designed_and_fonts_are_made - https://googlefonts.github.io/gf-guide/1 -
Re: Platform for Publishing Research Article
https://designregression.com/ takes submissions, feel free to get in touch to see if it's a good fit for your article :)1 -
Re: Glyphs (characters) alternative
There is no difference how you name the glyphs. This is only necessary for your convenience and simplification of work when creating features. You can usea.1, a.2, a.3 (or 01 or 001 if you have many …1 -
Re: Glyphs (characters) alternative
I strongly advise against encoding alternative glyphs in the Private Use Area. The clue's in the name - that use is intended to be private, not for publicly available fonts. I know it's a pain to acc…4 -
Re: Adam Savage from Mythbusters on fonts.
More detail about how it works here: https://www.underware.nl/fonts/scribo/features/write/#feature_info2 -
Re: Your business is worth more than 6X yearly earnings
As a business coach and consultant to type people, I've been hired as an advisor to several of these acquisitions. I'm not speaking here for any of those folks but I wanted to share some thoughts. Th…17 -
Re: FontPeople distribuiting one of my typefaces under a different name.
Well, Jason, it looks like the "earliest juncture" at which you close your shady business hasn't come around yet for some reason. Unscrupulous individual, indeed! You made (and apparently c…17 -
Re: Early access or beta releases à la futurefonts.xyz
Also think it's worth noting that FutureFonts is pretty darn selective about which fonts they accept on their platform. I've had two projects rejected, at least one of which I think was well executed…9