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Re: Project Faces by Adobe
Because he could and because he's Frank. ;) FWIW, Font Chameleon was much more sophisticated. It was possible to create fonts that looked like real fonts, and also do the crazy slider thing. It could…2 -
Re: Strange rendering of one letter in on-line PDF reader
That's a known thing. It happens in Acrobat when type has been converted to outlines. Rectangular glyphs get heavier. It's a side effect of a rendering trick designed to boost the visibility of thin …1 -
Re: Mysterious extension changes
Chris, that's not quite right. A font suitcase is really just a file. In the original Mac file system, files could have two different components or "forks", a data fork and a resource fork.…4 -
Re: Diversifying TypeDrawers
As human beings, we are prone to cognitive biases and blind spots, and they can be quite difficult to see in ourselves. A husband and wife have a disagreement. The wife says the husband never puts th…6 -
Re: The Next Font Format?
I recall John Hudson writing about it and one of the ideas I'm thinking is very much along the same lines. It's an old idea, though. I don't claim to have originated it. Back in the early eighties th…3