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Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
Spec'ing type to run around an irregular shape (photo, art, whatever)—especially when the text had to fill a certain amount of area—was a dark art. Today, the computer can do it interactively as you …4 -
Re: Applications without OpenType feature support
You could try Affinity Photo. It has pretty robust OpenType support and is a pretty good alternative to Photoshop (and much less expensive).1 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
It depends on the system. There were digital typesetting systems going back to the early seventies, not super high quality, mainly used at newspapers. I'm not sure how the fonts were distributed, but…4 -
Re: Opti Fonts (Castcraft Software Inc.)
Castcraft was notorious in the sixties and seventies for pirating film fonts for headline setting machines, such as the Typositor. They would acquire a film fonts from franchisees of VGC (who also ma…5 -
Re: Variable Fonts In Use
It's possible, but it takes quite a bit of manual work to get that effect in After Effects (for example) with a static font. You have to tween each individual path, making sure the start points corre…1
