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Re: Interesting OpenType Trick
Erik, I licensed Kosmik in 1993, and it came as Kosmik One, Kosmik Two and Kosmik Three, all normal 200-ish glyph fonts, PostScript for Mac, which I mixed and matched for the effect. I recall that th…2 -
Re: Interesting OpenType Trick
Nina, LetteRror’s Just and Erik used to bill themselves as The Random Twins, and made several typefaces exploring randomness. However, none would work automatically in standard formats, and it wasn’t…1 -
Re: calt and liga tracking fail
After a little bit of testing, I’ve come up with a best practice of putting the pseudo-random code in both the {rlig} and {calt} features, identical (except for renaming the lookups), with {rlig} fir…1 -
Coming from where, at what age?
They say that Goudy started a new career from scratch at age 40. However, he had been a bookkeeper prior to then (1905), a job in which penmanship was paramount. Nowadays, one can get into type desig…9 -
Re: Testing consecutive kerning pairs for consistency, Vs kerning single pairs alone
I disagree with this new orthodoxy, which strikes me as a step sideways entailing a lot of unnecessary work. Sorry if this is off-topic, but kerning is an end-of-pipe corrective measure, and a lot of…7
