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Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
I hesitated until now to respond to this discussion, mainly because the initial poster’s “identity” is a no-brainer for my sense and his proposal is ridiculous naïve. No one needs a “type designers u…7 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
Association is exclusion. When you associate you exclude those who don't fit your "rule of association". Be it a religious one (the worst), a philosophical one (copy of the worst like Freem…4 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
@"Dave Crossland": I didn’t spell it out, but the distinction for contract workers would not apply to those who had worked for Big Tech in the past, but for those who wished to be members o…1 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
I guess what it would need to do is try to address the primary grievance, which evidently is dissatisfaction with royalty-based distribution platforms and their increasing control/strongarming/abuse…4 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
The eszett is an ascending lowercase letter and should reach ascender height. If it looks too prominent, make the glyph narrower until it fits in. (I actually enjoy fussy eszetts that look like longs…2 -
Re: Monotype New Contract ...Subscription Model, do the scary maths.
The math is wrong as the syncs they count against is all syncs by all customers and that is one factor they do take in. They also take in the number of named desktop fonts (production fonts) as a per…3 -
Re: Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?
Yes. There are certain kinds of document in which both roman and italic tabular figures are required. A quick search found this:5 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
Not sure the industry needs another big association. It needs a variety of working groups that coalesce around areas of interest. Scale brings bureaucracy and slow pace. You need fast-working and nim…8 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
Orangenstadt :D1 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
I see two possibilities emerging from this thread: 1. Setting up an association that demands certain standards from vendors, with the threat that the associated foundries will otherwise leave the ven…8
