Dave Crossland · Font Expert

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  • Re: FontEnigma

    Encryption, going back to the Enigma machine, implies 3 parties: A message sender, a legitimate message receiver, and an illegitimate message intercepting attacker. Before public key encryption, goin…
  • Re: FontEnigma

    Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage ... The term “intellectual property” is at best a catch-all to lump together disparate laws. Nonlawyers who hear one term applied to these…
  • Re: FontEnigma

    Frank, fair enough, all agreed. Obfuscation, not encryption, is exactly the correct word :) Various people have attempted font DRM schemes since the 1980s, and as far as I know, most died out pretty …
  • Re: "No style grouping conflict" issue on Monotype Font Platform

    https://fonttools.github.io/fontspector is wicked fast :) If Monotype puts the source code to these QA tools on Github under a libre license, then the type community can port them to FontSpector at n…
  • Re: Is Adobe Originals closing down?

    I often tell type tourists (like big co executives ;) that one has to be extremely picky in temperament to be a professional type designer, to care passionately about tiny details that are impercepti…
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