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Re: Type Design Hardware?
I remember George Abrams bitching (complaining. US colloquial) to me that he, all the lettering artists in NY, were resentful of Ed because his finished art was so much cleaner and sharper then their…3 -
Judge rules AI-generated art is not copyrightable
Fonts being software, not “art,” I don’t know how relevant this would be, but it‘s certainly thought-provoking. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/ai-works-not-copyrightable-stu…3 -
Monotype Foundry Partners
This appeared in my LinkedIn feed recently: https://www.monotype.com/foundries Old news? New News? I so rarely visit LinkedIn it could have been there for months!1 -
Re: How to best give access to special characters in a font
Suggested best practice: Give them their correct Unicode values, and make sure they are nicely grouped when they appear in a Glyphs palette (position while in Index mode).The circled numbers are in t…5 -
Re: Type Design Hardware?
Right on, James! I was his personal assistant for 10 years at Photo-Lettering, Inc. Integrated Light Boxes on our drafting tables were also invaluable. Not every graphic arts film could create a sli…6 -
Money for Fonts
A “slide show essay” and retrospective, addressing the evolving context of my 46-year career as a type designer. This 31-page PDF is best viewed in full screen mode, in landscape format on a desktop,…21 -
Youtube Brazil homage for calligraphers
I don't know If it's going global but YouTube Brazil today changed their logo in homage for caligraphic arts so i've decides to do this post as a "note". To those that don't read portuguese…4 -
Re: Tabular punctuation in the font with both Lining and Oldstyle Figures
Why not make both oldstyle and lining tab figures with the same width? Imagine that a typographer has prepared a complex table with oldstyle figures and the client says “Nah, change the figures to li…3 -
Re: Is capital alpha just /A?
Then there are the epichoric (local) archaic forms of Alpha, not all of which would be recognisable as Latin A. And the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) forms of Alpha recorded on seals and coins:5 -
65% Now and Forever - Font Bros
Font Bros was launched in 2006 with the idea that independent font designers love creating fonts but aren't as fond of the business side of running a font foundry. From endless font installation and …20
