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Re: Imperial vs Gazette
I knew someone who worked there in the late seventies when they were starting to phase out metal type. He said they used Linotype machines, but they may well have been Intertype. The matrices were in…1 -
Re: Curvature Combs
I find it can be helpful in finding the inflection point in an s-curve. As a way to gauge the smoothness of a curve, it's kind of like a magnifying glass. It enables you to see things that might not …4 -
Re: Extend language support?
They don't only use Vietnamese in Vietnam. I see it sometimes in the U.S. (Vietnamese restaurants, for example). Maybe not enough to make it worth adding, but...3 -
Re: How skeleton based type design could shake up digital type design workflows
I think the problem is that type designers don't usually create typefaces with stroke-making tools (this includes the pre-digital era). They can, and do sometimes, but it's the exception. So, a strok…10 -
Re: How skeleton based type design could shake up digital type design workflows
Maybe, but the point I was trying to make was that selling this approach to type designers used to working with outlines is a bit like trying to sell the idea of Lego to sculptors used to the freedom…3
