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Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
In the early 1980s, when most of my work was in design for the music industry, there was a great discussion about whether to keep the word “record” when referring to the new Compact Disc format. I th…8 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
The florin (or at least a hooked and sloped f) was conventional for photo apertures long before Macs were around. (This is from a 1920 journal.)6 -
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
