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Re: Le Monde Journal vs. Spectral Lawsuit
The working files to which the defending lawyer refers should settle the matter. But props to JFP for going after Google. That company’s type business model may have put a cornucopia of free fonts at…2 -
Re: Type Design Books Collection
I haven’t read most of the books mentioned, but I can recommend: • The Modification of Letter Forms by Stanley Hess, Art Direction Book Company, 1971/82.3 -
Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
In theory, but not in practice. At least, not unless you show me a weight menu that is entirely numeric, which is more user-friendly than a menu that uses names, listed according to weight, as in thi…2 -
Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
Whether or not users rely on a name or a number to identify “how bold is the heaviest weight of this typeface?” the alignment of those descriptions is at the discretion of the type designer. As a typ…1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Die etc: If the AI is training on scans of typography, then it is no different than type designers scanning old printed foundry specimen books, by eye or with a photographic device. However, if the A…3
