Ben Blom

  • Re: [OTVar] Defining instances in the font vs. defining instances in CSS

    Agreed, but it may not be as dire as suggested. If the “j” does not collide with the square bracket in the masters—then such a collision won’t happen in the fonts created by interpolation from those…
  • Re: A FontLab 6 intervention

    I’m a happy user of FontLab 5. In Glyphs, I feel completely lost. To be able to work productively, I still use Word 2003 today. For the same reason, I might still be using FontLab 5 in ten years from…
  • Re: FontArk

    David Cope: “The notion that humans have some kind of mystical connection with their soul or God, and so on, allowing them to produce wholly original ideas (not the result of recombination or formali…
  • Re: The letter S

    For me, usually the most time consuming part of designing an “S” (as with other glyphs), is a process of stepwise refinement, a tweaking again and again. I keep the steps, so I can revisit them if ne…
  • Re: Diversifying TypeDrawers

    From TypeDrawers Rule Number 2: I think it is irrelevant, whether someone who contributes here is a woman, a man, or belongs to any minority. I am in favor of diversity of ideas, opinions, techniques…
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