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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 -
Re: Font Distribution: Know Your Rights
It’s chokepoint capitalism, enabled by monopsony. Not much the little people can do about it, except stay up to date. Organization might be an option, but it’s not in the “indie”, entrepreneurial hea…3 -
Re: Artificial Intelligence generated letters
There is an ecology in culture, in which science and art (for want of better categorizations) change apace. Gallery art has constantly dealt with the incursions of technology, for instance becoming n…3
