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Re: Happy 25th Birthday, OpenType (May 6)
Ha, well... Adobe had invested heavily in a PostScript-based font production workflow, and (thinking mostly about the engineers at the time) truly thought it was a superior format — e.g. it had a be…1 -
Re: Type pricing and licensing: as a tool or material?
So much of licensing conventions comes from early desktop publishing, where the end product was almost always print. In that case, the old “fonts as tools” model works pretty well. Unfortunately, eve…5 -
Re: Happy 25th Birthday, OpenType (May 6)
I agree with that — but! The support for larger character sets was such a game-changer for layout features as well. I’m thinking about the elaborate designs like Caflisch Script, Poetica and Bickham …6 -
Re: Happy 25th Birthday, OpenType (May 6)
It was the reason I was hired at Adobe in 1997! They needed someone to help build OpenType fonts. It was obviously nascent then, but it was fun and interesting to watch the technology come together. …1 -
Re: FontLab vs Glyphs
I think UI is a tricky business. For every user complaining about a cluttered, outdated UI, there is another user who depends on their years-long familiarity with that UI for their income. Change com…2
