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Re: Figma’s Vector Networks, an Alternative to Paths
The Freehand pen tool was quite similar to the one in Fontographer, mainly because it was made by the same programmers (Altsys). FWIW, I preferred the Illustrator pen tool way back when Illustrator a…2 -
Re: Casual-Users and the Font Market: An Interview with Type Designer Laura Worthington
The thing I don't like about separate fonts is that it means lack of kerning between characters that were designed to work together. I really like the way that works when everything is in one font.8 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
Font developers serve whomever pays, and the graphic arts market, even here in the future, still pays. The graphic arts market is, for the most part, also the people who create online media. Readers …3 -
Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
My default character set has grown in a haphazard way. It started out years ago with what Fontographer showed by default, which IIRC was a superset of the MacRoman and Windows Western Latin. Later I …2 -
Re: Casual-Users and the Font Market: An Interview with Type Designer Laura Worthington
It sounds like she's saying that there is a non-professional font user market consisting of people who can't afford professional graphics apps, and that OT features tend to only be supported in pro a…3
