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Re: Ergonomics for designers
Used Aeron chairs are a thing, btw. I have bought three in the past 25 years (one broke, and I have one in my office and one for my kid’s desk), and two of those were used. They have been fine. This …1 -
Re: Ergonomics for designers
Wow, that's a lot. I paid about US$800 for mine ten years ago. (I guessed wrong in my previous post regarding how long I've had it.)1 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
While I appreciate the sentiment behind maintaining a fair and equitable royalty rate for type designers, I think the tone of our current conversation casts font vendors in an overly negative light. …12 -
Re: "Modern" a typeface inspired by Bembo, Garamond, Centaur, GFS Didot and Bodoni
Hi Diego. Welcome to the type design world. A very exciting field, as you have experienced already. Certainly I see many things to improve in your work, but everyone starts that way. I certainly did.…2 -
Re: Group contact at Adobe?
The purpose of my inquiry is not really for myself, but for the music notation community. For the last number 10 years or so, I have been involved in creating music notation fonts for the different n…5 -
Re: Group contact at Adobe?
I don’t know either, and Mr Echs knows the current folks there better than I would!2 -
Re: Group contact at Adobe?
I'm not sure who the right person at Adobe is for that type of question, these days. You might have better luck posting your question here. If you'd rather not post publicly you could send me an emai…1 -
Re: Ergonomics for designers
I use an external Apple Magic Trackpad for everything. It's connected to a MacBook and I enable the "tap to click" functionality at the OS level, which may be my favorite feature of the tr…1 -
Re: Ergonomics for designers
Aeron chair here, too, for about 15 years. Very comfortable. The stock Apple Magic Mouse has worked well for me, although it caused problems when it was first introduced (2009). It gave me sharp pain…2 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
It “can be” (not always) a time-sink. Luckily there are now very useful tools to automate and report on a font’s design, features, tables, and overall soundness. But if it needs work, then there’s co…2
