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Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Previous experiment was trained using a mixture of styles, hence the mixture of the results. In this new experiment I have re-trained AlphabetMagic to focus only in the inline-outline style (Leaving …1 -
Re: Problems of overshoot (?)
I am aware that more bearing = less kerning! Thanks for the report. Searching, so far I have found only this: https://bigjumppress.blog/2014/04/24/adventures-in-the-monotype-archive-jan-van-krimpens-…1 -
Re: How to submit fonts to Google or Adobe
IIRC I hooked up with Adobe by sending a message to the contact form on the web site. For Google fonts hit up @"Dave Crossland" on Twitter or here.2 -
Re: How to submit fonts to Google or Adobe
You might also consider your compatriots at Indian Type Foundry, who are the creators of Fontshare.com, a new and growing open-source type platform.1 -
Re: Variable fonts
With your strategy Mark, VF will erode the price of buying a complete family, in a downward spiral. Purchases will migrate to the cheaper VF. Just as OpenType fonts reduced the “price per glyph”, VF …1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Can you do some experiments with neon and marquee light styles? Like ITC Neon and Budmo? I'm curious about how it handles stripes and dot patterns.2 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Seashore inspired Number 2 experiments1 -
Re: ‘Grand Cru Classés’ sprouting from Antwerp soil
Between 1740 and 1759, the punchcutter Jacques-François Rosart lived in the city of Haarlem. There he mainly worked for the type foundry of Johannes and Izaak Enschedé. Unfortunately, while he create…3 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
Note that the STIX Two fonts support IPA, so there is a functional reason for the /fhook is straight up and coordinated with the other letters. These days, I lean towards that as a default approach a…2 -
Re: Language-specific considerations/best practices
Christoph Koeberlin generously wrote up his approach to some extended characters when he published his extended Latin glyph sets along with his Pangea font family: https://github.com/koeberlin/Design…1
