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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 -
Re: License Violation
One more aspect worth focusing on is something Jan mentioned: when a user buys a license for a font, the user agrees to the terms of service and the EULA, so a contract is in place. The terms of the …2 -
Re: number of kerning pairs vs. performance
The only thing these days which does have some influence on performance is the number of lookups in the font. This is understandable: for a given combination of enabled features, on each glyph, all a…4 -
Re: License Violation
Dave, Given that in 1990, I have developed an entire invoice and customer management system in Excel 3.0 for my father's little signage shop, and he's been using it for 25 years now almost …2
