Mark Simonson · Type designer

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  • Re: Pros and Cons of free fonts

    Pablo, FYI, I agreed to allow Google include a font family that I'd already released as open source (OFL). I was paid nothing for that, and wasn't asking anything either. Given that it was …
  • Re: Pros and Cons of free fonts

    I don't quite get the idea that the type industry is "top down". Your average non-designer with a computer uses fonts licensed from and provided by the big type companies because that&…
  • RoboFont

    I've been contemplating moving to one of the new font editors, Glyphs or RoboFont. I've been playing around with both for quite a while, but I realized that the only way to see if either wi…
  • Re: R.I.P.

    Type itself is a way to draw letters automatically. There are many opportunities for automation in type design. Automation is a design choice. Possibilities are endless. Our time on earth is not.
  • Re: R.I.P.

    I've seen ∞ used on blogs to indicate a permanent link. In my earliest commercial fonts (pre-Unicode), I used to put more useful glyphs in some of the math symbol slots—things like solid and ope…
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