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Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
I used Ikarus M quite a bit. I was introduced to it at a debate at Type 90. David Berlow was on the Fontographer side and Veronika Elsner was on the Ikarus M side. I also owned a very large Aristo ta…2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
It cannot be completely ruled out that this is due to the fact that earlier versions of Ikarus M relied on the floating-point unit. If I remember correctly, version 3.01 was the first, last, and thus …2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Yes. Microsoft VTT (Visual TrueType) was originally a Mac application. Here is an example of VTT4.0 running on System 7.3 -
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Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
When it comes to IKARUS, as known, the format is still under the hood of the DTL font-production applications, as briefly described here. The small development team in the picture on that web page is …6 -
Re: AI-Generated Art and Copyright Infringement
It was a lower court, yes, but has the benefit of Judge White’s investigation of the technology and subsequent summary judgement being remarkably thorough. He didn’t rely on inapplicable analogues, a…2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Two weeks ago I demonstrated to my KABK Type & Media students the font editors I used to work with in the 1990s. As a student in 1993 I started with Fontographer 3.1, followed by Fontographer 3.5…4 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Microsoft VTT was based on Sampo Kaasila's Visual TypeMan and/or Visual StingRay, if I recall correctly.2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
The Apple TrueType editor was called RoyalT. I played around with it when it first came out but I recall almost nothing about its strengths/weaknesses.1
