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Re: Stem Weight Evolution
Most older text fonts digitized during the gold rush of the 1990s were sourced from film type, itself sourced from drawings originally made for metal production. Drawings for metal text faces were ma…4 -
Re: Google Fonts: Your Questions, Answered
Scott Martin, I agree with you to a great extent about the similarity in publishing books and fonts at a system level. In fact, I think we can learn quite a few things from how book publishing histor…2 -
Re: Google Fonts: Your Questions, Answered
There's the "going rate" / "proper compensation" argument. Really murky waters to wade into. The $2 cup of coffee in Missoula costs $10 in Vienna. The $10 paperback in New York Ci…7 -
Re: Google Fonts: Your Questions, Answered
This whole discussion is really quite a deja-vu to anyone who happened to be on the web in the early- to mid-90s — it was like three hours of reliving 1995 for me yesterday. It should also be familia…4
