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Re: Alternate Helvetica /a?
If you can’t identify it as being a particular font named “Helvetica,” it should not be called Helvetica; it is an unidentified neo-grotesque. Over the years, many foundries have published neo-grotes…2 -
Re: Type Design vs Type Engineering?
If engineering is concerned with function rather than appearance, typeface design is per se also engineering, a typeface’s appearance being its function. This conflation of aesthetics with engineerin…2 -
Re: Announcing the first Fonts and AI conference
Yes, the Race to Oblivion will be great fun.5 -
Re: What AI tools does the font community need?
Nobody “needs” AI or asked for it. Why embrace something so disastrous for humanity and the planet, for all the “productivity” it may produce? —Richie Havens, Little by Little.6 -
Re: How would you redo Unicode?
For Latin: Abolish quotesingle and quotedbl. That might prompt keyboard manufacturers to provide separate keys for all four “curly quotes.” I doubt that having separate code points for quoteright and…0
