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Re: Pricing
I've observed that sometimes, an excessive focus on minimizing risks can inadvertently diminish customer goodwill. As a passionate video game enjoyer, I often come across my fonts being employed…3 -
Re: Monotype foundry webinar on royalties
From what I've heard, this is a tactic often used to get foundries to sign the new contract. They do and then somehow there is no deal. Have heard it from quite a few sources that I trust, so it…3 -
Re: Kerning of serif font....
Well, I have a slightly different idea about that. I know my control character strings. Especially in optical sizes where spacing becomes tighter, O's and o's can sit comfortably between H&…4 -
Re: Kerning of serif font....
Agreed. Just want to point that in exceptional cases the kerning can be part of the spacing. For example, I'm sometimes using a positive kerning pair between O's or o's.2 -
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
