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Re: Maximum UPM for .otf fonts?
All measurements are relative to the UPM. So if you scale the UPM up or down, you need to scale all other measurements by the same factor if you want the font to appear to be the same size in use. Co…1 -
Re: ATypI's (old) stance on cloning vs. yours
Are you sure about this? I licensed fonts from both libraries back in the nineties. In comparing Bitstream vs Linotype digitizations of the same faces, the data does not match, not even the metrics. …7 -
Re: PS or TT? (aka cubic vs quadratic Bézier curves, or *.otf vs *.ttf)
I distribute both (together) as far as possible, but a couple of my distributors provide only CFF by default and TTF only if the customer asks.1 -
Re: PS or TT? (aka cubic vs quadratic Bézier curves, or *.otf vs *.ttf)
One big reason for the different types of curves was related to the fact that TrueType fonts were meant to be rendered on-screen on computers that ran as slow as 8 MHz. Quadratic Bézier curves requir…6 -
Re: Nick Cooke of G-Type, TypographHer interview
Interesting to see you're working on a font based on the titles in The Italian Job. I started to do the same thing about ten years ago. I didn't get much beyond the lowercase before setting…2
