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Re: Font revival from A to B
Newer versions of FontLab (6 and 7) have ScanFont-like functionality built-in. Even auto-separation with OCR, so as to put the scans into their correct cells. Even if you are like me and throw away t…4 -
Re: Type pricing and licensing: as a tool or material?
IIRC, the uptake of web fonts was just a few percent per year for the first couple of years, peaked at something like 15%/year in the middle 3-4 years of peak growth (when it broke 50%) and then decl…5 -
Re: A tool that lets you pirate all fonts on any website, instantly.
John, I actually agree with you on the less helpful vs harmful part. And it is worth noting that there is at least some fuzziness on where/whether copyright applies to fonts. The US Copyright Office’…1 -
Re: salt or aalt?
'aalt' is short for "all alternates." It is intended as a grab-bag or summation of all possible one-to-one substitutions. Everything in 'aalt' should already also be in …2 -
Re: Which is the most effective naming convention for optical sizes?
John’s advice looks solid to me—and Cesare is right about potential name conflict issues. You can’t (or at least, shouldn’t) have two different fonts which are identical for both name IDs 1 and 2.1
