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Re: ATypI's (old) stance on cloning vs. yours
I can well-imagine that Bitstream may have used URW’s Ikarus tech. They had developed their own format and some tools over time, but they also did convert. But I’m reasonably sure that Bitstream’s fo…3 -
Re: Ogonek Positioning - Heavy Capital A
It’s not just “whole word tolerance”. The tolerance for diacritical marks is even higher. In many languages that only have one kind of mark above letters, “anything” above the letter will be recogniz…1 -
Re: ATypI's (old) stance on cloning vs. yours
(I mean, Zapf is probably the only person whose “private” drawings, i.e. his Dingbats that he himself conceived and selected, ended up in Unicode, so there you go.)1 -
Re: ATypI's (old) stance on cloning vs. yours
Never in my life I met a second person who would combine the actual highest-possible skill with a very strong (yet still healthy) confidence. Hermann Zapf was a true force majeure of the type design …1 -
Re: ATypI's (old) stance on cloning vs. yours
Bitstream was founded by a group of ex-employees of Mergenthaler Linotype, led by Mike Parker who used to run Linotype. The Bitstream library was created on the basis of many Linotype designs, though…2
