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Re: Units per em
"Old software" also includes new software like opentype.js. Actually right now we have a problem — for decades, there were only about 4-5 font rendering engines (well, Adobe itself had sev…1 -
Re: Duospace. Wait, what? Duospace?
Apple is an interesting case: they had Monaco for years which was, well, anything but suitable for code. Then they did Menlo, a fork of the opensource DejaVu Mono, which was uglyish and uninspired bu…3 -
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 tiny fr…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
