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Re: 50% drop in our Q1 2023 Adobe royalties
At the same time, Adobe just announced financial records.2 -
Re: 50% drop in our Q1 2023 Adobe royalties
This happened to me a few years ago. I used to make most of my Adobe royalties through web use. Then it looked like a large company that was using my type rebranded and my royalties dropped quite a b…2 -
Re: 50% drop in our Q1 2023 Adobe royalties
Without getting too detailed about it, I can report that the simple payment-per-font (Adobe payment ÷ number of fonts) has been steadily ticking up over the last six quarters for Type Network fonts. …2 -
Re: 50% drop in our Q1 2023 Adobe royalties
@"Miles Newlyn" Well, sure, Typekit embedding has never been a lot. But it could still have the effect of them dropping use of your fonts on sync too, no? Here's what I do every time I get …3 -
Re: Where do you put the circumflex in /hcircumflex, and caron in /kcaron?
The letter ĥ is also used in Oniyan (Bassari) in Senegal following the 2005-987 Oniyan spelling decree. Some authors use h̃ instead as it represents a nasalized voiced fricative consonant [ɣ̃], h bei…5 -
Re: My text face wish list
At least scientific books should use U+27E8 and U+27E9, as e.g. LaTeX uses them: "Enclosing punctuation" (as I call it) used in the right way has the benefit, that Unicode properties 'open…2 -
Re: Checking legibility of glyph
I don't know where the over-the-top @ originated but here are some examples used on IBM Selectric typewriters. luc.devroye.org/fonts-44934.html Complex characters appear to have lighter strokes on ty…2 -
Re: Checking legibility of glyph
Legibility is subject to context. Ok... It looks like, or maybe just sort of looks like an "at" sign by itself but in actual use, in most cases, there's nothing else it can be.1 -
Re: Checking legibility of glyph
How can one assess the merit of a glyph in isolation from the text in which it will appear? In my opinion, the lines to the left and right of the letter “a” that occupies the centre of @ are very imp…6 -
Re: Checking legibility of glyph
I guessed it was an @ sign. But it certainly did not feel intuitive. Mind you, that was in isolation; agree with Ray that context is a big clue in normal use, when @ usually appears in places one exp…2
