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Re: Sunsetting Fonts.com etc.
I think it makes sense for Monotype to consolidate their brand under one name, and I think it is good for the rest of us. The point of multiple brands is to confuse customers into thinking they are d…3 -
Re: Type Business Strategy
I'm sure everyone is expecting me to reply to this. I feel the pressure. But the question is so broad that I'm struggling to give a useful answer. Here are my personal principals I run my b…12 -
Re: Microsoft Word and OpenType Substitions for non-Latin Sequences?
I note that you were experimenting with these lookups in the calt feature, which would be dependent on the shaping engine applying that feature by default in Word. A more broadly reliable, and better…3 -
Re: Sunsetting Fonts.com etc.
https://www.myfonts.com/pages/closure-announcement-faq3 -
Re: A look at the Bulgarian Cyrillic Letter „в“ (uni0432 / uni0432.loclBGR)
I transferred these observations both into a YouTube video and FontLab project. In the near future I'll create a repository of the project in GitHub. I hope the gathered over there information w…1 -
Sunsetting Fonts.com etc.
I got an email from Monotype informing affiliates that they're sunsetting their non-MyFonts sites. Has this been announced elsewhere? Is it just those three sites?3 -
Re: Sunsetting Fonts.com etc.
Wow, in Linotype’s Events section there’s an article dated August 10, 1994:1st International Type Design Contest3 -
Re: The Hustle: Where do fonts come from?
“[Monotype] keeps saying, [...] We are not competing with foundries [...] .” Owner of Helvetica, Frutiger, Palatino, Avenir, Zapfino, Univers, BT Vera, BT Charter, Droid, Open Sans, Titanium, URW Cor…4 -
Re: The Hustle: Where do fonts come from?
Don't know about "well researched" there. All these articles about Monotype I've seen over the years either don't dig deep enough or just neglect to mention a crucial 15-year…17 -
Re: Microsoft Word and OpenType Substitions for non-Latin Sequences?
The UFO format supports it as well: https://unifiedfontobject.org/versions/ufo3/lib.plist/#publicunicodevariationsequencesFontmake or ufo2ft will use it when generating the OpenType files. Other tool…2
