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Re: Pressing On: The Letterpress Film
Maybe it's because we are more oriented here to type design rather than type use in general. Pressing On is mainly about small letterpress printers, including older "hobby" printers and the…4 -
Re: New forum typeface
I'm seeing it. (Safari 13.0.5 on macOS 10.15.3.) Noto Sans looks better to me.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: Interminable neon
I suppose it's possible, but it seems unlikely that a computer would have been used to aid the design of some lettering on an album cover in 1973. A human following an algorithm more likely.5 -
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
