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Re: Legalizing a personal "workhorse" font for a specific client
Your description implies that your client wants full ownership of the typeface — a buyout — not simply an exclusive license. But if that’s not true, then perhaps the client could have a period of exc…6 -
Re: A clarification about kerning.
In my opinion, kerning should always be optical -- a judgement by eye -- in the final analysis. Particularly with a humanist design like Garamond, numeric measurements are a good place to start and a…7 -
Re: Showing How the Sausage is Made
Like some other things, I think typeface design is one of those “minute to learn, lifetime to master” crafts — at least that seems to be the case today. I have an impulse to get protective about it, …4 -
Re: WOFF2 and Modification Restrictions
I think the technicalities are important — what is actually happening, versus how it looks superficially. As I said, WOFF is a wrapper, and the font is treated no differently than if it were in a ZI…2 -
Re: protecting my design while presenting it to a foundry
In my experience, some do refuse to sign an NDA! It tends to work only when the refusing party has some leverage (i.e. some reason for the other party to care), but I’ve seen it and made effort to a…2
