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Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
Speaking of outlines designed around bitmaps, here is an ugly thing we made in 1998: a TTF for a terminal emulator, targeting a specific ppem size and reproducing the shapes of the client’s older, an…2 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Of course, no prediction of the future can be “true”, but don’t you think that there is a strong likelihood that the warnings of Aza and Tristan about what could go wrong due to AI, will go wrong? Ha…3 -
Re: PowerPoint: Please vote for OpenType Feature support eg. Kerning
Powerpoint had a better but less popular competitor back in the day, Aldus Persuasion. It's too bad it didn't make it. When Adobe acquired Aldus in 1994, it released a Windows version of Persuasion (…5 -
Re: Design differences between text font and math font
I want to add two documents to Ruixi's very useful suggestions:* http://www.typoma.com/publ/20041002-atypi.pdf gives an overview over the design of mathematical symbols * https://tug.ctan.org/info/sy…1 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
You can’t talk about typeface designs for screen without talking about specific display technologies, resolutions, and renderers. There are two different aspects to ‘designing typefaces for screens’:…4 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
Demos and Praxis by Gerard Unger come to mind. And Marconi by Zapf.1 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
This goes back much farther than Verdana and Georgia. You need to research the people who started creating bitmap fonts back in the late 1960s. And the Hershey fonts go way back, they might be the fi…1 -
Re: PowerPoint: Please vote for OpenType Feature support eg. Kerning
If anyone from Microsoft is reading this: copy and paste the “font section” of the PowerPoint source code into Bing Chat, then type “add OpenType feature support” then copy and paste the result back …6 -
Re: PowerPoint: Please vote for OpenType Feature support eg. Kerning
Thanks for bringing this up with Microsoft. Again. I did vote for your request. While you’re waiting for MS to update PowerPoint rendering code older than every current programmer maintaining it, try…1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
The longer this thread gets the more I think that Jonathan Hoefler saw this coming and sold at just the right time.2
