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Re: Applications without OpenType feature support
You could try Affinity Photo. It has pretty robust OpenType support and is a pretty good alternative to Photoshop (and much less expensive).1 -
Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
I try to avoid neutral. Being in gear takes one much further.2 -
Re: Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)
Softmaker may have noticed that I did a revival of a particular font, as they renamed their very limited and very rough digitization of it to match my unique (but not trademarked) name. When I notice…5 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
My first job in NYC was with a Phototypesetting firm. I was in the art bullpen. One of my jobs was to paint out the scratches on the glass font plates. It seems I was the only one with a steady enoug…2 -
Re: Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)
Softmaker scooped up an old font of mine (Beowulf-1, released in the mid-90s before I knew anything about Libre licenses--it has only a copyright notice), renamed it as "British," and now s…3 -
Re: A humanist grotesque (sic!)
I don't think the Indian rupee symbol works. Look at how it relates to Devanagari letter र (ra). To avoid congestion in the = part, you can make the bowl taller than the official design.3 -
Re: A humanist grotesque (sic!)
I have used gaps in currency like that at micro sizes, same form as your ruble. the designer reviewing the cyrillic pointed it out as something that felt odd... I think you can get away with it, if y…1 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
@"J. Bridges" you'd be well served to make a trip to the Museum of Printing in Haverhill, MA and you'd have every question you have answered - https://museumofprinting.org/3 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
It depends on the system. There were digital typesetting systems going back to the early seventies, not super high quality, mainly used at newspapers. I'm not sure how the fonts were distributed…4 -
Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
I find the idea of a perfect chair absurd in the extreme. How can something outside of the abstract realm of math even be objectively perfect?3
