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Re: Where is Arabic Italic originating from?
There are several basic properties in most scripts that can be used for differentiation of voice: 1. Color — this has been used e.g. in blackletter manuscript (usually red was used for emphasis) 2. S…1 -
Re: How big is the type design industry?
Also, trying to attribute revenue to “type design” is of course moot because digital fonts work largely on the licensing level. Many fonts that are licensed to clients and customers today have been d…2 -
Re: How big is the type design industry?
Nick, “revenue of a sector” is of course a very coarse, misleading estimate. My understanding of how revenue for a sector, or “industry”, is estimated is that it’s the total of the final prices that …1 -
Re: LibreOffice 5.3.0 adds OpenType Layout feature support
Khaled, that won't help because in OpenType, features have their separate implementations per script and languagesystem. In OT, "liga" for "latn/DFLT" may be implemented via …1 -
Re: Public domain pros and cons
Dave, you are very deeply mistaken. OFL is just a software license, and a is a legal instrument (a form of a contract) between two parties: a licensor (the copyright holder) and the licensee. In a s…6
