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Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Microsoft VTT was based on Sampo Kaasila's Visual TypeMan and/or Visual StingRay, if I recall correctly.2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
The Apple TrueType editor was called RoyalT. I played around with it when it first came out but I recall almost nothing about its strengths/weaknesses.1 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
What about ATF’s short lived type design software? Did anybody use it? Years ago I read that it could do the scaling and stretching tricks that the Benton pantograph could.1 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
ATF Type Designer, typeface editor by ATF/Kingsley. The basic license didn't allow the user to sell fonts they produced commercially. I recall paying $50 for a demo license just to play with it but I…4 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
My workflow: I was working as a graphic designer at the time, with font making an emerging side gig. My software environment comprised Fontographer, for making fonts—and, for testing them, which was …3 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
One other thing about Fontographer: The early versions could only make Type 3 fonts, which were really equivalent to EPS (Embedded PostScript) for each glyph. Technically, this meant that you could d…2 -
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@"John Butler" It is somewhere in the range from highly misleading to simply false to say “They also made Font Chameleon, a sort of early MM implementation that Adobe bought to remove from …6 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Ares Fontmonger was a po-man's Fontographer. They also made Font Chameleon, a sort of early MM implementation that Adobe bought to remove from the market. There was also a tool named Softy.2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
On the Apple // platform there were Apple Mechanic, Shape Mechanic and Font Mechanic from Beagle Bros.1 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
In the early nineties on the Mac, besides Fontographer, there was Letraset's Font Studio and URW's Ikarus M. I used the first two but don't know much about Ikarus M. I know some others here used it. …3
