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Re: When did the "Serif vs. Sans" derby started?
Certainly, fonts do have rendering problems at low resolution, but how much distortion is acceptable is open to debate. Microsoft and Apple took different approaches, crisp vs. fuzzy. In as much as M…1 -
Re: How big is the type design industry?
Marketing is crucial for retail fonts. Unless a western corporation licences a Latin-Cyrillic-Greek typeface family for a nice fee, there is insufficient return on investment for native Latin designe…1 -
Re: How big is the type design industry?
There is no such thing as a type design industry, just as there is no book writing industry, film directing industry, or automobile designing industry. The numbers being discussed here refer primaril…2 -
Re: automatic spacing correction for locl FRA. Good or bad?
I do a similar thing in the Fraction feature, replacing the space between a number and a following fraction by a thin space.2 -
Re: The vinyl records of font formats
However, Smeijer’s philosophy is that “fidelity” (understood as the exactly consistent reproduction of typographic shapes) is a poor measure of the effectiveness of typography. In that sense, compara…3
