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Re: Is the font design business profitable for you guys?
A lot depends on what you mean by “the font design business” for the rest of us. There is: * designing typefaces solo or creating your own team, whether for the retail market or eventually/also commi…5 -
Re: Variable fonts, axes values
Riffing on what Mark wrote: I like that idea in some ways, but one advantage of the sliders is that it can visually show the available range (and potentially also show the default) as well as where o…3 -
Re: Legible type design literature/scolars
One thing that is not often discussed directly, because we are embedded in it…. Legibility is about how easy it is to decipher which character is represented by a given glyph. This is largely depend…2 -
Re: Type design hot takes
OK, my hot take is: “I freakin’ love the Th ligature, and whenever I see my name without it I usually feel like something is wrong.” I am pretty sure it was Robert Slimbach’s idea. I liked it, though…3 -
Re: Looking for help with Contextual Alternates
If you want to kern the Greek Theta with the IPA characters… nope. I mean, you can put the data in the font, but most layout engines separate text runs by script (writing system). So they will treat…2
