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Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Does anyone have an image of the anti-Apple ad that was put out in the late 1980s by an organization representing typesetters?1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Rather than trying to rein in and control this new medium, it may also be used to spark one’s imagination, for instance to create a novel kind of distress. When trying to muss up letter shapes, metho…1 -
Re: Variable fonts
With your strategy Mark, VF will erode the price of buying a complete family, in a downward spiral. Purchases will migrate to the cheaper VF. Just as OpenType fonts reduced the “price per glyph”, VF …1 -
Re: Eyeball font identification party trick strategies
You may recognize it, but can you put a name to it? The initial-letter prompting strategy for remembering names: Go through the alphabet letter by letter, imagining that the particular letter you’re …1 -
Re: Empirical Statistics of Font/Glyph Metrics
No, that’s not the issue I experienced, it was the justification algorithms in layout apps such as Quark and InDesign that caused the difficulty. Even with the same glyph metrics as foundry type, I f…1
