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Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
Ramiro, what you describe is a kind of lobbying and promotional organisation, which may indeed be a useful thing. This seems to me something essentially independent of technological innovations aimed…5 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
I think it is a mistake to seek to solve problems caused by economic concentration and abuse of dominance only with technology. In my view, we first need an international organization that can highli…3 -
Re: Ergonomics for designers
Appreciate hearing others experiences and tips so far. I can adapt to drawing on a laptop trackpad (though have preferred a mouse), but the detached, larger trackpad is intriguing. I like that it cou…1 -
Re: Lithuanian I/i with ogonek in serif typeface
On further inspection, the high quality typography works using right ogoneks more than centered ogoneks seem to be the more dated ones. The more recent Navajo works use centered ogoneks.3 -
Re: Group contact at Adobe?
Note that that page is now misleading since Adobe no longer directly licenses its own fonts outside of the Adobe Fonts service (which doesn’t allow modification). It’s the license you get from the r…2 -
Re: Ergonomics for designers
Check out Teknion Contessa which is about US$1100. I've been using mine for almost 15 years and it's very comfortable and durable.1 -
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
