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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 -
Re: Empirical Statistics of Font/Glyph Metrics
Because of the difficulty in duplicating line breaks with layout application “paragraph composers”, I would recommend that the software be set up to “fix” the first and last words in the line, then s…1
