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Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
My memory and understanding of the history of fonts and pricing is a bit different than Adam’s. Two things happened around the same time in the early 90s: Microsoft introduced their TrueType Font Pac…1 -
Re: Are we heading towards a "VariableFontCloud"?
Tons of good responses already in this thread. I agree with almost all of them. We have had these capabilities repeatedly over the years. Infinifont, FontChameleon. Etcetera. Early versions of such t…4 -
Re: I trained a neural network to kern a font (mostly)
Well, that's an advantage of automated kerning *in the layout app*. It doesn't help if that automated kerning is being done in a font editor, as the fonts can't store cross-font kernin…1 -
Re: Kerning Underscore
The reason to have them flush—or better, just slightly overlapping—is that people sometimes set rows of underscores as a quick "blank"... actually really common usage. Even by pro designers.3 -
Re: Playing around with Venetians
I haven't looked closely, but just at first glance, I really like it. It really captures the feeling of actual printed Jenson type from the 1470s.2
