Ben Blom

  • Re: The future of type

    I agree with Miles Newlyn. The technology for creating and using type design, will continue to change. The technology used to create type design, will continue to influence type design. The centuries…
  • Re: Broadcast License Pricing For A Daily News Show

    For me, licenses are primarily made for customers that are willing to “play by the rules”, not as instruments to facilitate “policing”. When a big customer buys a minimal desktop license and uses tha…
  • Re: Maximum UPM for .otf fonts?

    There seems to be a suggestion here, that changing the UPM is a means to make glyphs look bigger or smaller. I would never change the UPM to make glyphs look bigger or smaller. Changing the UPM is, I…
  • Re: Weird font choice

    What a font “suggests”, is only in the head of the beholder. The idea that a font is “futuristic”, “female”, “male”, “happy”, or whatever, is a cultural thing. None of those labels are inherent in th…
  • Re: Shouldn't italic be an OpenType feature?

    The idea to have an italic within a variable font, only makes sense, if there is any “variation” possible to derive such an italic from the corresponding upright. For most fonts, especially serif fon…
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