Mark Simonson · Type designer

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  • Re: Point Clean-up

    Mark SimonsonMark Simonson
    The main reason to put control points at the extrema is for hinting. Hints must be attached to control points. If you don't put control points at the extrema, it makes it impossible to add meani…

  • Re: Pros and Cons of free fonts

    Mark SimonsonMark Simonson
    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

    Mark SimonsonMark Simonson
    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

    Mark SimonsonMark Simonson
    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.

    Mark SimonsonMark Simonson
    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.
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