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Re: Why does a font’s price depend on usage?
Fonts are software, not hardware. A lot of freeware has a license condition such as "Free for non-commercial use," but requires a license for commercial use.1 -
Re: Private Use Area for ligatures and alternates
I would advise not being intimidated by an irate customer. The correct practice is not to encode these additional glyphs. Palatino Linotype, which was created in 1996, has a whole bunch of uncoded g…3 -
Re: Usefulness of Emoji in a fun example
Here's a typical example of miscommunication cause by emoticons. Someone posted this in reply to a post of mine, without any accompanying text. Even if I enlarge it, I have not got a clue what it is …1 -
Re: Usefulness of Emoji in a fun example
Esperanto has been around for decades, but who uses it? Emojji being around for decades in Japan means that a good number of Japanese understand it, but a universal way of communicating it is not, an…1 -
Re: Usefulness of Emoji in a fun example
I must be getting old. For me, Emojji fail to communicate anything at all. The aphorism "A picture says more than 1,000 words" is only true if the image is big enough to see, and carefully …2
