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Re: A humanist grotesque (sic!)
I think the construction of /h/n/m might suit the initial humanist concept better? in the pure neogrot, they stand out a little compared to the /b/d/g/p/q where the strokes are more continuous and br…1 -
Re: A humanist grotesque (sic!)
Exactly, yes, apologies for being unclear. The new middle /n and /p feel more related to me. Syntax and News Gothic are good examples of going in the other direction - taking the /n on the left and a…2 -
Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
I think fvar is a legacy format for naming instances, and fundamentally broken; its only value is for legacy systems that haven't been updated to deal with STAT.1 -
Re: US State Deptment switching from Times New Roman to Calibri for all official documents
One thing that's mentioned in passing in the WaPo article is the fact that Calibri has been the default font in Office since 2007. The reasons given for the change are said to do with "accessibi…8 -
Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
STAT or fvar? Seems like this might be a possible use case for fvar Instance flags which are currently "reserved for future use". Define REPRESENTATIVE_INSTANCE or some such which can be u…2 -
Re: Unicode: where is the Drachma sign?
In many cases Unicode has those as separate characters because previous encodings did and it tried to normalize them to only one character each in a few cases. Applications that follow Unicode normal…1 -
Re: ‘Grand Cru Classés’ sprouting from Antwerp soil
Fernando Mello has been awarded the ‘Certificate of Excellence’ in the ‘Text’ category of the Tipos Latinos Biennial 2016 for his typeface FS Brabo. All of the projects that the jury selected will be …5 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
I think it's teaching us something. The entire design feels "wound up," like a sprinter or a swimmer at the Olympics coiled up and waiting for the starting gun in just a second1 -
Re: Tocharian A Font and Application
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Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Yes indeed... thats what I "wanted" to do.. But... since 2048px got me into a memory overflow I will revert to 1028px. In my current set-up this is the best I can do now. The things is: The…1
