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Re: Public domain pros and cons
Copyright licenses may not be strictly speaking “contracts” in the U.S. sense of contract law, but that’s only true in the U.S. jurisdiction, and other Comon Law jurisdictions (because copyright law …1 -
Re: LibreOffice 5.3.0 adds OpenType Layout feature support
This is very unobvious for software developers who use existing text layout libraries to solve. Their code needs to itemize the text into runs which have the same font, size, script, language system …5 -
Re: LibreOffice 5.3.0 adds OpenType Layout feature support
The Typography toolbar is developed in association with FSF.hu, the Hungarian free software foundation. These are the people behind Hunspell, the spellchecking and hyphenation opensource engine that …1 -
Re: LibreOffice 5.3.0 adds OpenType Layout feature support
I recommend people who have basic programming and design skills to have a look at the Typography toolbar extension for LibreOffice:https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/typography-toolbar It …2 -
Re: How big is the type design industry?
For 2016, Monotype reported $100M revenue for their OEM business and $100M for Creative Professionals, which includes various sales of both Monotype's own and third-party fonts (my wild guess is that…3
