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Re: Free fonts are good→free fonts are bad
Joyce, I don't think so, because of 2 things: (1) economic substitution, and ever increasing supply, creating terminally diminishing returns to the marginal typeface development project, and (2) the…1 -
Re: Free fonts are good→free fonts are bad
Personal opinion only, not the view of my employer, Google: So, in this scenario you've proposed, there's a new font distributor in town offered by a tech titan... and it's similar to the recent ILT…1 -
Re: I made an italic font without permission
Personal opinion, not the view of my employer, Google: The OFL RFN makes sense to, and is used extensively by, the license steward, SIL. But personally I find the rfn clause distasteful; it uses the …5 -
Re: Designing slash glyphs in heavy weights
Here's how Font Bureau did it in Roboto Flex :)4 -
Re: Type Design Technical Advances
When I started in 2008, everything except "Retina displays" was there, and I've definitely seen the importance of that, but with some caveats - one junior type designer I commissioned had n…3