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Re: MyFonts and families
I have a few typefaces available on CM as well as MyFonts, among others. The royalties are higher so even though general sales volume (at least for me) is a bit lower on CM, the payouts are similar. …7 -
Re: MyFonts and families
Ray, the idea of having dedicated charts for different genres on MyFonts is brilliant. I bet it would also be profitable for MyFonts, since users would be more likely to be exposed to the fonts they …7 -
Re: MyFonts and families
The chart is the problem. A single chart for all font types. It's like in music (sorry to use this analogy again) where if you make a top chart of all music, the only jazz song on it would proba…14 -
Re: Stroked vectors in FontLab Studio 6
I use FontLab’s <Make Parallel Path> tool.I find it works fine, much better than <Expand Path>.5 -
Books About Type Design and Founding in the United States of America
This is the first in a series of bibliography threads I plan to start. I think having ongoing lists with multiple contributors and discussion on a forum makes more sense than top ten lists or a dedic…5 -
READ THIS FIRST: The TypeDrawers Rules [PREVIOUS VERSION]
EDIT 21/06/2021: See https://typedrawers.com/discussion/4092/read-this-first-the-typedrawers-rules for the latest rules. These are archived for reference. We have only five rules, so they should be e…12 -
Re: MyFonts and families
Don’t bet on it. Distress and casual scripts have been popular since emerging in the grungy 1990s. They are the high-touch antidote to soulless high-tech, the vernacular riposte to slick marketing, t…11 -
Re: An interesting logotype
Ah ha! — I’ve tracked it down, in “Linotype One-Line Specimens”, 1958, New York. I had been expecting to find it under “Logotypes”, not with the punctuation, which is why I missed it at first.11 -
Re: LibreOffice 5.3.0 adds OpenType Layout feature support
To give some context, the switch to HarfBuzz was done mostly by a Google Summer Of Code Student and me (contracted by The Document Foundation). The work I was doing was originally intented to provide…7 -
LibreOffice 5.3.0 adds OpenType Layout feature support
LibreOffice 5.3.0 is a new version of the free office suite for Windows, macOS and Linux. Among its many new features is a fully-revamped text engine which uses HarfBuzz and supports both automatic a…8
