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Re: At what point of the design process do you start digitising your drawings?
I question the premise of this thread, which locates drawing as a purely analogue media process. I draw digitally, using a tablet and stylus, creating and manipulating Bezier paths on screen in FontL…2 -
Re: Kerning and Nick Shinn's mashed potatoes preference
No. I’m saying that type needs to breathe, and fonts in which gaps are closed up—which is the majority of kerning—have the air sucked out of them. Also, consider the default (above) of Helvetica, com…5 -
Re: The vinyl records of font formats
Vinyl may be compared to foundry type, in terms of being analog and accurate. Fred Smeijers calculates a resolution of 2540 dpi, in his book Counterpunch. I went to a high end consumer audio show rec…2 -
Re: Graphology
Would that the so-called “scientific” readability of typefaces received the same opprobrium.6 -
Re: Why FontCreator hardly used by professionals?
I can only speak for myself. I’ve never heard of this application! I stick with FontLab, which I’ve been using for ten years. I dislike changing software and having to learn new stuff when the old is…4
