Thomas Phinney
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Re: In need of some help understanding Adobe Illustrator's Optical Kerning Feature.
Yes, Adobe’s optical kerning is size-specific. To simplify slightly, one could say it includes tracking. It is… impractical to simply build optical kerning into the font, because optical kerning affe… (View Post)2 -
Re: which is a better format to copy paste or import into font program?
What John said. Learn how to use your font editor for drawing. If you change over to drawing in a font editing program, you will initially be slower. BUT… 1) On average, it might take you something l… (View Post)13 -
Re: John L. Renshaw (Spartan)
Renner designed Futura (or at least the initial design which was then tamed by Bauer typecutters). I thought Renshaw did Spartan. It is certainly derivative of Futura, so there is every reason to cre… (View Post)1 -
Re: John L. Renshaw (Spartan)
I found his obituary which has a photo. Sorry he looks so dour! (View Post)1 -
Re: New Year New EULA
I think the most interesting thing is that “normal” users (who do not pay for an additional license) have to convert text to outlines if they want to use Darden fonts in a PDF. This makes differences… (View Post)5
