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Re: Am I anywhere near the right direction?
There are a number of guidelines in this video that might help. I am noticing particularly your curve-to-straight transitions, and curve-joining-a-stem intersections—and there are probably other issu…5 -
Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
Although it is true that most companies’ EULAs don’t permit modifications, Adobe’s fairly specifically permits conversion for compatibility reasons. (This is only relevant for fonts licensed for perm…2 -
Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
Calling it a “loader” dramatically understates what is involved in supporting the Type 1 font format. I have spent literally decades working with the people who were actually doing the programming of…5 -
Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
How about multiple files per font? The fact that those multiple files are platform-specific and recombine in weird ways? And that some of them can’t survive travel across certain kinds of file system…3 -
Re: Am I anywhere near the right direction?
I think the best I can do is point you here: https://www.thomasphinney.com/type-design-resources/ Not 100% up to date, but a lot of concepts and things are rather evergreen.1
