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Re: A new graphical editor for TrueType hints
There have been various little developments since I posted a progress report a couple of weeks ago, and one big one, namely that ygt now automatically generates values for the cvar table, per the sug…1 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
This last winter, I went on a cleaning spree. I threw away all my old software boxes, discs, and manuals from the '80s and '90s of every kind, including FontStudio, Fontographer, and all the old box…1 -
Re: 50% drop in our Q1 2023 Adobe royalties
One interesting idea that just occurred to me is that newly-added fonts obviously come in with very low usage counts, which in theory would drive the overall payment-per-font number down. So it’s goo…2 -
Re: 50% drop in our Q1 2023 Adobe royalties
@JoyceKetterer We were expecting Adobe activations to remain the same or increase since we've not sold any licenses to Adobe users. Thank you for those very useful points on dealing with Adobe's csv …1 -
Re: 50% drop in our Q1 2023 Adobe royalties
@JoyceKetterer I had not thought this could be Adobe's 'fault', rather that users were just not activating our fonts as much as previous quarters. I find the reports completely incomprehensible, so I…1 -
50% drop in our Q1 2023 Adobe royalties
For our latest quarter we've seen nearly a 50% drop in our Adobe royalties. This is close to the point of us deciding to pull out of Adobe, but we'll wait to see the results of the next quarter. I'm …2 -
Re: 50% drop in our Q1 2023 Adobe royalties
At the same time, Adobe just announced financial records.2 -
Re: 50% drop in our Q1 2023 Adobe royalties
This happened to me a few years ago. I used to make most of my Adobe royalties through web use. Then it looked like a large company that was using my type rebranded and my royalties dropped quite a b…2 -
Re: 50% drop in our Q1 2023 Adobe royalties
Without getting too detailed about it, I can report that the simple payment-per-font (Adobe payment ÷ number of fonts) has been steadily ticking up over the last six quarters for Type Network fonts. …2 -
Re: 50% drop in our Q1 2023 Adobe royalties
@"Miles Newlyn" Well, sure, Typekit embedding has never been a lot. But it could still have the effect of them dropping use of your fonts on sync too, no? Here's what I do every time I get …3
