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Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
@"John Hudson" one of these? From this blog post: https://medium.com/@fpeulrich/a-brief-overview-of-developments-in-digital-type-design-561d9e63a122 I feel like my odds of finding one in wo…2 -
Re: Small Capitals
Petite capitals also have a 'secret' advantage for comprehensive fonts: several phonetic characters are uppercase letters with lowercase height. So, when you add petite caps, you also have about thir…1 -
Re: Small Capitals
A small-to-petite cap axis in a variable font would be a useful idea. Sometimes, typographers need small caps for a mixed-case setting (U&lc), sometimes for all-small-caps, sometimes for caps-wit…2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
I used Ikarus M quite a bit. I was introduced to it at a debate at Type 90. David Berlow was on the Fontographer side and Veronika Elsner was on the Ikarus M side. I also owned a very large Aristo ta…2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
It cannot be completely ruled out that this is due to the fact that earlier versions of Ikarus M relied on the floating-point unit. If I remember correctly, version 3.01 was the first, last, and thus …2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Yes. Microsoft VTT (Visual TrueType) was originally a Mac application. Here is an example of VTT4.0 running on System 7.3 -
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Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
When it comes to IKARUS, as known, the format is still under the hood of the DTL font-production applications, as briefly described here. The small development team in the picture on that web page is …6 -
Re: AI-Generated Art and Copyright Infringement
It was a lower court, yes, but has the benefit of Judge White’s investigation of the technology and subsequent summary judgement being remarkably thorough. He didn’t rely on inapplicable analogues, a…2
