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Re: Myfonts/monotype New Agreement
I have been on the conference committee and reviewed proposals for every ATypI event for roughly 15 years now, including this one. I certainly don’t recall seeing any such proposal prior to the Pari…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: Early access or beta releases à la futurefonts.xyz
Noah, the issues you describe are exactly why, in my opinion, using a dedicated-to-the-concept site like Future Fonts is a much better idea than trying to do something similar on one’s own. They go t…4 -
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: Platform for Publishing Research Article
Also, it would be strange for a foundry or company to publish an article about somebody else’s view of some particular font production process. All of those companies have their own font production p…3
