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Re: Type Design vs Type Engineering?
Well, that brings to mind another phrase you could use: “font production specialist.” Works for me.1 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
As a complete visual knock-off rather than only metrics-compatible, Book Antiqua is a different case. (Also, unlike any of Microsoft’s other PostScript-base-35 “compatible” fonts they got from Monoty…1 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
FWIW, I have often seen design with metrically compatible fonts. Century Gothic I see semi-regularly. Whether or not that played any part in the choice of that font by the end user is another questio…5 -
Re: A few questions about EB Garamond...
I am sorry to say they feel… quite “off” to me. I mean, I shouldn’t have been able to tell that was how you went at it — I could tell in that they seemed manipulated in that particular way. It is not…2 -
Re: External tool for stem weight measurement of font families?
Aha! I found another tool I was trying to remember. AFDKO has a tool called “StemHist” that does this. In fact, I wrote about it 10 years ago on this very forum: “AFDKO tells you how many stems have …3
