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Re: Ergonomics for designers
I will also throw in a vote for the Aeron chair. A great piece of kit which transformed the state of my back, for work. Adobe had them at the office, and I bought one for home as well… transformative!4 -
Re: A new social network for type people: typo.social (@Mastodon)
Not to mention that is is part of the bigger Fediverse. I am on typo.social but at least half the people I follow are not....1 -
Re: Metric and em size
Some folks at Microsoft believe that, for TrueType outlines at least, having the em square be a power of 2 (e.g. 1024, 2048, etc.) results in slightly better performance in scaling operations. Some f…3 -
Re: Adam Savage from Mythbusters on fonts.
Seems like he does not know about smart font technologies like OpenType layout features (or GX/AAT), and what they can do for script fonts.4 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
The printer font contained the outlines, and the spacing, but neither kerning nor menu name and style linking information. All that was in the (Mac) suitcase file which also contained the bitmaps or …2
