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Re: Myfonts/monotype New Agreement
Sorry to state the obvious here, a collective bargaining organisation is NOT a distributer as its role would be to bargain with the distributer on behalf of the foundries. That rules out ILT, Type Ne…2 -
Re: A new social network for type people: typo.social (@Mastodon)
Just an update on typo.social’s growth: There are now 1,487 users (according to instances.social), of which 687 are active (used the server in the last 30 days).1 -
Re: Metric and em size
Going all the way down to machine-level binary arithmetic, a UPM that is a power of 2 indeed makes the scaling operation faster. Say, you have a glyph that is 967=(1,111,000,111)₂ units wide, and a U…3 -
Re: Metric and em size
I believe that's true, too. When Apple introduced TrueType, it had to be able to run acceptably on 8 MHz 68000 processors, such as those in the Macintosh Plus and SE.1 -
Re: Myfonts/monotype New Agreement
I attempted a live transcription of the second session, and posted on typo.social. It’s not complete, but I tried to summarize each speaker’s comments. Hopefully gives you a sense of what was discuss…3 -
Re: Myfonts/monotype New Agreement
@"Thomas Phinney" Were you also in the committee that allowed ATypI Paris' T-Shirts to be printed with the logo of a sponsor foundry with such a level of hierarchy that it connotes that the…1 -
Re: Typewriter typeface vs monospace typeface
I'd like to highlight an often overlooked distinction within the world of typewriters: the critical differences between monospaced metal fonts and typewriter fonts. Both types of fonts carry their ow…3 -
Re: Projects Google Fonts ought to fund in 2023?
My best-selling font is used by dozens of people. My Google Font is used by millions of people. I prefer the latter.Also, the money I got for Cormorant is still more than what I earned with my 7 reta…3 -
Re: Metric and em size
Some folks at Microsoft believe that, for TrueType outlines at least, having the em square be a power of 2 (e.g. 1024, 2048, etc.) results in slightly better performance in scaling operations. Some f…3 -
Re: Typewriter typeface vs monospace typeface
On the manual typewriter (in the USA English arrangement) " was the shift of 2, _ was the shift of 6, and ' was the shift of 8. Also, * was the shift of -, which was still on the right of 0 (ze…2
