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Re: What is the correct term for combining italic lowercase with upright roman caps?
I have learned something from this thread. Aside from not having heard of Fairbank myself until now, this inspired me to do some searching. I learned that as well as there being a Bembo Italic, both …1 -
Re: Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?
We should be clear about different kinds of metrics. Lots of things will change over the course of a design, as you say, but scaling everything relative to the UPM is best avoided if at all possible,…1 -
Re: Basic rules for bearing
BTW, in the case of an M with traditional stroke modulation, so a thinner stem on the left side and a thicker one on the right, I find that the sidebearings should not be symmetrical, but should be s…3 -
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
