Should I upgrade Glyphs Mini?

LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland

James: ‘His rational, “Only the Divine is perfect”’

And still, ‘perfect’ is a relative conception IMHO. As Edmund Burke wrote: ‘For it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness to any uses.’

* Edmund Burke, Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London, 1770) p.226

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"I don't know why pure curves are 56% and not 50% so that's why..."

Well, that's because we're all secretive bastards without a single beat in our hearts for the newcomers, sorry from the others

"Pure" cubic beziers are 56%. and if I understand this definition of pure, pure quadratic beziers are 50%. Adobe made their decision 100,000 ellipsis ago (1984), Apple made theirs 85,000 ellipsis ago (1988). Glyphs, had nothing to do with it. 

This "Inventing technology" to make it easier to achieve whatever consistent pure or impure curve, as required for any local curve within a complete typeface design, was a pretty cool idea, in 1974. 

Hope that helps.

Frode, Jessica started to journey from lettering artist to type designer a few years ago. I'm not sure where to draw the line, or whether a line should be drawn at all, but I think once someone is consumed enough to make optical size masters and invent designs hell-bound for complex adjacency data, they're no longer only lettering artists?

Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer

One last note about the percentages: For cubic Bézier curves, the question is what the best approximation is. One I have encountered in the literature is the one where the curve touches the circle/ellipse from outside every 45 degrees, eight times in total. For that, the percentage would be 55.22847493. Higher percentages would not touch the perfect circle between the extremum points. An area approximation would require a slightly smaller percentage.

Src: http://www.tinaja.com/glib/ellipse4.pdf (and many others, actually)

LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland

I have no idea whether there is anyone interested in it, but some of my old stuff I showed to Adrian Frutiger can be found here: http://www.lettermodel.org/wordpress/?page_id=1751

attar

The gravestone you engraved is very nice. Having a fleuron on one's gravestone is quite cool. — I guess engraving on marble doesn't leave much room for trial and error, so it mustn't be an easy practise.