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Re: What were the first OpenType font releases? And when?
Office 2000 was possibly the first product that bundled fonts with OpenType Layout tables, when they were called OpenType. It shipped in June 1999 and included Arial and Times New Roman versions 2.76…6 -
Adrian Frutiger (24 May 1928 – 12 September 2015)
The legendary Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger passed away today, on 12 September 2015, at the age of 87. Frutiger had influenced the 20th century’s European and world typography like no other, wi…15 -
Re: Why are italics lighter than their upright counterparts?
The following is completely anecdotal coffeetable psychology that I'm making up as I go along: Upright roman letterforms are static, akin to bodybuilders and weightlifters. Italic letterforms are mor…13 -
Re: Hinting help for a major type design project. (hinting genius needed)
I can second the recommendation for Monika Bartels http://fontwerk.de/ . She did the two TT hinting webinars with FontLab Studio (which are useful to understand the principles even if you don't plan …3 -
Re: Would you consider OTF "source" for e.g. an open source font project?
There currently isn't a single source format that is able to store sources of all kinds of data that can end up in an SFNT font. There are several monochrome and color glyph flavors, several layout m…2
