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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 -
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
