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Re: Kerning of serif font....
And spacing is an important pressure test for the proportions of your glyphs.3 -
Re: Kerning of serif font....
The reason this is a problem is, if you adjust the spacing, you pretty much have to throw out the kerning of the affected glyphs.2 -
Re: Is using diacritics as a design choice in bad taste?
I am not sure there is a general rule, but I have thoughts. It can be deliberately comedic (e.g. Spinal Tap band name and movie title, with the dieresis on the n). That can work for me. But otherwise…2 -
Re: Is using diacritics as a design choice in bad taste?
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_branding1 -
Re: Foundry initials before font name
Thanks for all the comments everyone, you've been very helpful. Except for you Paul (I'm being sarcastic btw). :D It's good to hear why people like it and don't like it, and why t…2 -
Re: Monotype foundry webinar on royalties
They tried this with me (I was always on the old Bitstream contract). I refused and they did the deal as a one time thing. I laughed when I saw how little money it was—they tried to get me to sign th…7 -
Re: Pricing
@JoyceKetterer: Yes, but I think we collectively forget sometimes that the use rights licensing model of software is itself directly taken from the use right licensing model previously employed, for …3 -
Re: Pricing
Minimising risk has never been an agenda for me. Personally I seek it in various ways. Of course if you avoid risk, you'll stick to a traditional model. I spent many years licensing by use, and …9 -
Re: Pricing
@"Ray Larabie", exactly. Also this is a knife that cuts both ways. Sometimes someone will ask for a discount, say on an app license because they are "only using it for titles" and…2 -
Re: Pricing
We offer both: licensing based on company size (determined by annual revenue) and traditional licensing (desktop/web/social, app, broadcast). The company size license, which we call the “Simple Licen…10
