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Re: Komik Ohne: A casual brush-pen blackletter
I love it, but I think I love it because I get it. For type people, this is recognisably blackletter because of the broken textura construction, yadda yadda. But for non-type people, the characterist…3 -
Re: Naming font modifications
This may be a bit pie-in-the-sky, but I wonder if all this discussion is a symptom of a broader problem about updating and revising fonts. And a related issue is that the difficulty of updating and r…3 -
Re: [OTVar] Suggestion to record in the font whether an axis affects metrics or not
I'm not convinced that this is even that useful from a rendering software perspective. If the font changes, you have to update the display, and you will be doing some substantial work to erase the ol…2 -
Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
It's great that we're seeing support in font editors already, which is imperative for getting variable fonts out there, but it is indeed a huge task to make this happen down at the user level. Take …1 -
Re: Kris Sowersby's "Welcome to the Infill Font Foundry"
I think another analogy is the Japanese creative arts. The underlying philosophy is that creative perfection was reached in the distant past, and you learn the craft by copying the exemplars (kata) o…2
