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Re: How skeleton based type design could shake up digital type design workflows
I think the problem is that type designers don't usually create typefaces with stroke-making tools (this includes the pre-digital era). They can, and do sometimes, but it's the exception. S…10 -
Re: How skeleton based type design could shake up digital type design workflows
Maybe, but the point I was trying to make was that selling this approach to type designers used to working with outlines is a bit like trying to sell the idea of Lego to sculptors used to the freedom…3 -
Re: Different width of ellipse?
I'm not sure, but I think that the reason the ellipsis is a standard character in digital fonts probably goes back to the original Mac character set. On the Mac, the ellipsis is used for menu co…4 -
Re: Ending ligature
That's because they were not intended to be used for Latin. You can use them in Latin fonts, and they "work", but not automatically and are not enabled by default. Latin text engines d…1 -
Re: New font manager
I bought it to see what it's about (only ten bucks, what the hell). It seems to be mostly about browsing and viewing fonts. You can use it to add fonts the system font collections, which could b…3
