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Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
I'm primarily saying that 25 years ago, the 800 fonts bundled with CorelDraw were a substantial portion of generally available quality fonts, but the 800 fonts available at Google Fonts are a ti…6 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
Well, it is quite obvious that things will change, because things have changed. Before MyFonts existed, it was quite unthinkable that people from countries other than the privileged West would earn a…7 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
In 1993, CorelDraw! has started bundling about the same number of Bitstream fonts as there are now fonts on Google Fonts. The cost of each font was effectively $.50. Around that time, Bitstream also…10 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
This is not very different for other software companies that opensource typographic software components that they themselves rely on in their core products. Twitter published Bootstrap and Facebook p…5 -
Re: Foundries Allowing Modification
I think at least some of these concerns are a bit antiquated. On the web, I can create a one-glyph font that I specify as being the one to be used for a given character while the "original font&…3
