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Re: Fonts Ninja (online type index)
Thanks for your answers! I'd sign up, although my foundry is very insignificant :) For finding 'similar' fonts, I would have thought that you went with a more human-based approach. For example, you c…1 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
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Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
You're right, "support from the type community" is vague. To elaborate: the most important way foundries could support the discovery platform would be by registering and adding their fonts …3 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
I would sooner shut the store down than sell it. TypeDrawers can be both the store and the forum (and I’d like it to be even more of an educational tool). The reason to set up both under the same nam…1 -
Re: Automatically Adjust Font Metrics to Match a Different Font Using `fonttools`
Metrics compatible fonts are primarily of use when a document is interchanged between software with differently licensed and available fonts. A lot of document formats are readable by multiple softwa…3 -
Re: Regular vs Book
Separation of concerns is common, though, and I work in a font team, not a typography team. This is all I'm aware of that's been written into public standards or otherwise publicly documented beyond …1 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
Hi Donat,the serif looks good to me overall, but the transition from stem to arch is still a bit unnatural. Check out the /U/ for reference.Sans is much better, but most versions are still a bit potb…1 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
@"Justin Penner" agreed but "with support from the type community", which seems too fragmented to me. "A small group of focused individuals" is the only possibility to b…3 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
Here's how I see it. This should properly be a cube, but 2D will have to do for now. Perhaps a three-way distinction between hard plateaus (left column), soft plateaus (middle column), and domes (thi…1 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
[Edited after your revision]This circle is just an obfuscated version of my diagram — the axes are still present, just a bit rotated, and you've imparted an arbitrary walk-through path on it. Keeping…1
