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Re: FontPeople distribuiting one of my typefaces under a different name.
The irony. I found this sponsored article where he gives advice on how to license fonts. And I can certainly recall seeing fontpeople in one of the sales reports, but I haven't been able to retrieve…1 -
Re: Half brackets from Supplemental Punctuation block. Is there a standard for them?
The proposal that added the half bracket characters, Everson et al., Proposal to add Medievalist and Iranianist punctuation characters to the UCS, N3193, L2/07-004, 2007, says the following:5 -
Re: The LeMo Method
At DTL we still draw a lot on paper and we use IKARUS for the conversion to digital contours. For example, the many years of development of DTL Fell, started with such drawings. However, I am well aw…1 -
Monotype foundry webinar on royalties
Hello all, We've been receiving a lot of questions about how Monotype will pay royalties on its new subscription service. We've also heard that they plan to give a webinar on the top on Wednesday so,…13 -
Re: Typewriter typeface vs monospace typeface
Monospace is easy, since it is a technical description of a typeface with a common advance width shared by all the glyphs. The term implies nothing about the design or style of the typeface. So I wou…3 -
Re: Maximum UPM for .otf fonts?
I tested Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator CS3-5, Word for Mac 2008 and Word for Windows 2010. This makes me wonder how far back we need to think regarding OpenType fonts and application support. W…1 -
Re: Myfonts/monotype New Agreement
The answer is very likely already given in the contract. Do a search for either of these words: breach, damages and you'll get an idea of the strength of response to be expected if a foundry does no…5 -
Re: The LeMo Method
You can spend ages drawing and redrawing a letter on paper, and at the end of the day you still have something that you need to digitise in order to be useful. Designing type directly in the digital …3 -
Re: Any recommendations for a reputable vendor focused on Cyrillic (or generally multi-language) fonts?
@"Olexa Volochay" thank you so much for weighing in. Speaking for myself, I know nothing about distribution beyond Adobe (for any script) which is why I did't comment. Our Omnes Cyrillic is…1 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
That was definitely the case when we were testing fonts on a variety of AR/VR headsets shortly before COVID. The project didn’t come to anything, alas, but I learned a lot about lens types and what h…1
