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Re: Free fonts are good→free fonts are bad
regarding libre as marketing, this 1996 quote from l. peter deutsch on nimbus sans is still relevant today. prescient RE libre fonts with names like "[foundryname] sans" and so on (all thou…1 -
Re: I made an italic font without permission
I think you are both right, joyce and john. avoiding naming collisions with web fonts is one of the stated reasons that reserved font names are included in the OFL. and, as far as I remember, google …3 -
Re: Type design hot takes
On shoulders like an /n, bezier handles that are completely unbalanced have the smoothest transition (makes it harder to see the on-curve points on the downstroke)5 -
Re: PhD/ArtD — where to go?
if you are looking at writing from the perspective of linguistics, there are some technical initiatives out there - e.g. https://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/ - but that is still, at the end of the d…1 -
Re: Why don't we hear about more use of variable fonts on the Web?
nice find dave! I'm going to run that by a motion buddy I'd wager a number of forum members already saw this RE: figma https://twitter.com/nima_owji/status/1479815195979665411 I assume the …2
