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Re: Type testing site
Since the original url at cyreal.org is not always online, I collected a list of mirrors a while back to post on my Type Design Resources page. * http://www.cyreal.org/Font-Testing-Page/ * https://mu…2 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Matching italics?1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Let's try to turn already made fun fonts into boring ones: Here is Jester: Make it boring! Now Speedball: Make it boring! Great Victorian: Make it Boring! Experiment #4 turned out much better than ex…2 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
2 boring ones here (Semiblod weight), 30 more here, to make you bored to sleep ::smile:1 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
I have no specific memory of this (beyond it ringing a bell), but looking at what you wrote I can see a problem with “if you use these fonts outside of the Adobe system”. Altogether, it would result…3 -
Re: Language-specific considerations/best practices
Regarding some of these, we might want to revisit them and see if the pros still beat the cons, especially the ones that may change the meaning of some characters. For Romanian, some users actually p…4 -
Re: Language-specific considerations/best practices
Test words—as the phrase suggests—are useful for testing, but if one is trying to make a general purpose font, not targeting specific languages but able to cleanly display any language you throw at i…4 -
Re: Finally decided to properly organize my fonts by category, and I'm having a bit of a hard time.
The grouping alongside the main historic styles is common practice and has some merits, but is also very limited. It can happen that Venetian and Textured apply to one typeface the same time. Or Blac…1 -
Re: Transparency, gradients
It's tricky because the complexity required to get any kind of smooth tone can cause apps to break, and even if you could make it work, you'd still get moiré effects. You can use a coarse halftone pa…2 -
Re: Transparency, gradients
In COLRv1 color fonts, you can define shapes with custom colors but also with the current text color. So, you could define a gradient from current color with no transparency to current color with ful…4
