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Re: Mid-70s Lettering Effects Service
I love the “caveman” effect. Don’t think I’ve seen that one before. I wonder how it was done? I’m guessing they had some kind of pitted filter for that. I remember learning that the outline effects w…2 -
Re: The Next Font Format?
I've thought about it as a dev tool, too, and did some preliminary Python code to test the concept (e.g., generating AFM data), but never got any further with it (yet). (I would show it here, but it …3 -
Re: The Next Font Format?
I would like to see a new spacing paradigm. The current one, in which each glyph is contained in a rectangle and each rectangle butts up against the next, is unnecessarily simplistic. To work around …18 -
Re: How does Illustrator calculate text frame height
There seems to be some confusion in this discussion. The OP was asking about point type. That is, text that you get when you click at a point with the text tool. The bounding box that he is talking a…3 -
Re: 3d Font Format
TrueType already can have PostScript outlines (i.e., OpenType) and all sorts of other stuff that was not part of the original spec.1
