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Re: Who owns DIN typeface? (Type questions about rights and public domain)
There are a number of separate questions. But even before that.... To “change minor details” does not get anybody off the hook from any ethical issue, and probably not from any legal issue. The word …16 -
Re: Typedesign and science, or: look at what I made!
Cognitive psychology can be a useful discipline for informing type design. Many of the optical compensation principles are ones that benefit from experimental investigation. One danger of scientific …6 -
Re: A Meditation on Arno
I am a big fan of Arno. I use it for the body text in my c.v. Adobe Text is Slimbach’s take on the Dutch-English Oldstyle type, sort of in the space of Kis/Janson/Caslon.2 -
Re: Sort multiple-mapping sequentially in FontLab
Mark’s suggestion works for FontLab Studio 5, but this feature has not (as yet) been implemented in FontLab VI.1 -
Re: List of glyphs that remain upright in italics
Thanks everybody for all the thoughtful (or sometimes brief, but still relevant) responses—even if many of them ended up being more about whether to make glyphs upright in the italic at all, rather t…1
