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Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
My favourite old documentary word is “scrolling”. A venerable noun cleverly rehabilitated as a verb, quite apropos. I’m also rather fond of “leading”, which some practical folk have tried to replace …5 -
[OTVar] Spacing axis
Recently I proposed to Microsoft the registration of a ‘Spacing axis’ in OpenType Font Variations. Tracking and CSS letterspacing are highly primitive mechanisms and they mess up spacing (for instanc…14 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
Foundry is a beautiful word. Let's be thankful for it.8 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
"Presses" no longer press. "Plumbers" don't use lead pipes any more. "Font company" may make more sense to people, but "font" has the same non-digital roo…10 -
Re: "W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design"
Thanks for posting this, Hrant. Three of the many reasons I’m sincerely stoked about this book: * It’s remarkable that a man who produced five or so lifetimes of work has yet to have a proper monogra…8 -
"W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design"
In case you still haven't heard: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/letterformarchive/w-a-dwiggins-a-life-in-design?token=80d07c32 William Addison Dwiggins was a genius, and I don't use t…7 -
Re: Kerning Pairs Generator
Feel free to mash up with this if it seems useful: http://ninastoessinger.com/stringmaker/ Source: https://github.com/ninastoessinger/stringmaker5 -
Re: Doesn't the forum webfont need refurbishing?
It is 2017, you don’t need all scripts in a single font file (and you can’t, the glyph limit for OpenType fonts is 65535 glyphs per font file). I think unicode-range is supported correctly by current…6 -
Re: Units per em
Linotype matrices were specified to .001" increments (with machining tolerances of half that) — which is much finer than a quarter of a point, and effectively no unitization at all. Unlike the M…6 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
Hi Mark, Besides the fact that your examples don’t really support your claim, i.e., your colored type can’t be used for text purposes IMHO, the next questions that come up are: – How does the reader,…6
