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Re: Upcoming Competitions?
I would enter a competition where you just have to send in the font, and the judges assess it by working with it. As it is, I find it impossible to muster the time or enthusiasm to design and make en…6 -
Re: Playing around with Venetians
Goudy, Cooper and Zapf often both angled the top stroke, and had it protrude to the right. And they made it wide. That seems to me like a good approach, as it provides breathing space within the char…1 -
Re: Calligraphic lettering critique
First learn the style with a pen and paper, that will make the fakery more convincing.6 -
Re: Are we heading towards a "VariableFontCloud"?
Then, practising type designers will become high-concept style curators. That is, if their social media identities are free of blemish.7 -
Re: I trained a neural network to kern a font (mostly)
Theunis, I wasn’t addressing drudgery, but the quality of a type design. By artificially removing the type designer’s exercise of taste in determining spacing, design veers towards impoverished me-to…4
