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Re: Did the printing press actually create more jobs for scribes - > AI today
I said that rather loosely. What I meant is: I doubt AI would be able to understand the relationships between all kinds of font elements to be precise enough any time soon. Letter ‘a’ can be drawn w…0 -
Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
Right, that really depends on whether you can sell later that font at all – if it’s just a customization or something too narrowly designed for the client, then lifetime makes sense. But something l…0 -
Re: The Six Basic Typefaces of Massimo Vignelli
I’d argue that every single project needs a custom font to communicate its unique message and using a font twice is a compromise. If you consider some far-from-design right owners making piles of mon…0 -
Re: Free fonts are good→free fonts are bad
Free fonts have their place: lower quality, vastly overused and lagging years behind in terms of style, with very few exceptions. Sometimes the pros overweight these cons, other times they don’t; it’…0 -
Re: Type design hot takes
“Modern font based on historical references”3
