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Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
I think at least one of the formats supports assigning colors.1 -
Re: Show me your failures!
Here are a couple of my early attempts at type design (way before I could do it on my own computer). The first is from 1976, when I was in college. An assignment in Lettering II, drawn in ink on a fu…6 -
Re: Units per em
The 18 unit em John mentions is from the metal type days, and it was strictly to do with the widths of the characters. The shapes of the characters were not constrained by any sort of unit grid the w…10 -
Re: Home office vs. office
I have a studio at home, in a repurposed bedroom. I fantasize about having my studio somewhere else sometimes, to make the line between work and not-work less blurry. I did that for a while back in t…4 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q2
When I started adding OT features in the mid-2000s, there were some popular apps, like MS Office and Flash, with poor or nonexistent OT support. So I made "supplemental" fonts where certain…2
