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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 -
Re: Cyrillic italics vs. obliques
To some extent “how humanist”, to some extent simply how much more cursive (dynamic) the italic is in comparison to the upright. The Futura and News Gothic both have obliques that are equally static …6 -
Re: GlyphsApp, Prepolator, & Superpolator vs. Just Plain GlyphsApp
Dave, I see a certain contradiction in what you're saying: you say that .glyphs is becoming an "industry-standard source format" while you cite examples of foundries using various tools, an…7 -
Hermann Zapf (8 November 1918 – 4 June 2015)
The great calligraphy and type design master Hermann Zapf passed away yesterday, on 4 June 2015, at the age of 96. Hermann has been a defining force behind type design and typography in the 20th cent…18 -
Re: Please suggest typefaces for my talk on contextual alternates
Nick, if you’re interested in “the origins of the species” aka “ancient history”, I can give an account of somewhat “pioneer work” in the realm of “calt”. In 2003-04, I worked on the “opentypificatio…2
