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Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
Per TypeDrawers’ rules, without going into too much detail on methods: you can spend $0 on the tools to download a web embedded font and convert it into OTF or TTF in less than 30 seconds. I open WOF…1 -
Re: Eyeball font identification party trick strategies
For me, font ID has always been kind of a gestalt thing, like recognizing someone's face. Even so, I do rely on certain unique attributes for some typefaces, like that dreadful R in Arial. These tend…3 -
Eyeball font identification party trick strategies
When I want to recognize a text font without looking it up, one of the first things I do is scan through copy for instances of the italic, because italics are easier to distinguish among. Am I the on…1 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
Historical aside: No, the intent was to introduce a format distinction between desktop and web fonts, so that there was a minimal protective wrapper to limit cross-use of the same font file. The cont…5 -
Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
Most of my fonts are available via AdobeFonts through the AdobeCC. Over that past six months I have discovered that widespread misunderstanding of the AdobeType license is causing me to loose a very …11 -
ILT Academy Courses
Are we ok to share news of upcoming type design courses? If yes, we do have a few slots remain for Intro to Greek type Design with Irene Vlachou and Latin Script Design with Ulrike Rausch, both of wh…2 -
Can my variable font axis snap instead of slide?
Hello! I’m working on designing my first variable font and I’d like the styles to “snap” from one to the next instead of interpolating. I’ve set them up as whole numbers, so basically I’d like to eli…1 -
Re: Typeface timeline
A couple of years I started on a website project aggregating font and designer information by scraping major distributor sites... every once in a while I come to think it would be worth picking it up…1 -
Re: Dalton Maag is recruiting
I work with collaborators in various countries around the world, and I always try to pay everyone the same amount—at least proportionally to the overall budget of individual projects—, regardless of …12 -
Re: Empirical Statistics of Font/Glyph Metrics
No, that’s not the issue I experienced, it was the justification algorithms in layout apps such as Quark and InDesign that caused the difficulty. Even with the same glyph metrics as foundry type, I f…1
