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Re: Is selling on MyFonts a good idea?
You can’t just “put your fonts” on Adobe or many other distributors. I would advise you to sell licences from your own foundry’s ecommerce website, and market through social media such as Tik-Tok and…8 -
Re: Is selling on MyFonts a good idea?
I can't tell you how happy I am that I went it alone 20+ years ago. It was expensive at the beginning, but all these years later I am independent of all of these resellers and all the others.13 -
Re: Letterform Innovation?
Structure, not applied style. Here are a few systemic inventions and reforms to writing systems/alphabets: 1. Hangul 1443 2. Petrine reform of Cyrillic 1708 3. Masonic cypher (18th century) 4. Cherok…4 -
Re: Letterform Innovation?
letterform innovation here, thoughts about phonetic forms there – are you familiar with Philipp Stamm's examination of possible phonograms for the german language?6 -
Re: Fontspring Joins Dribbble and Creative Market
I thought I'd wake this thread up again, many things have changed since it was discussed. Fontspring does now take 50% royalties, as do most platforms now. Creative Market is adding all fonts cu…4 -
Re: A humanist grotesque (sic!)
The official version says that a simple person drew this hryvnia sign, accidentally met a big boss and gave it to him. And the big boss liked it so much that he approved it... After all, it’s so eas…1 -
Re: Visual Alternatives to Times New Roman?
It depends. Times New Roman Regular or Bold? These are two different typefaces united under the same name. The models that inspire the Regular are from the 17th century, those of the Bold from the 18…3 -
Re: Visual Alternatives to Times New Roman?
In the old printout days, double-spaced Times or the like gave enough space for feedback in my experience. Courier meant a whole extra tree chopped down for no good reason. But in those days, number …1 -
Re: How to solve for phonetic font
You can use something like respelling ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_respelling ) if you're only covering English. There are other mappings to phonetic transcription like X-SAMPA …1 -
Re: A humanist grotesque (sic!)
Regarding the official guidelines for currency symbols, such as the Euro, it's often observed that while committees set the parameters, the real ingenuity lies in how typeface designers interpre…2
