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Re: Crushed by the Font Industry (Please Read)
You could engage a lawyer to go after end user licensing infringements, on a “pay if you win” basis. ** In distributor agreements, there is usually a clause about being able to audit the distributor’…7 -
Re: Why don't we hear about more use of variable fonts on the Web?
Yes, master glyphs. A “master” is something that is used as a fixed rendering to interpolate from. For instance, in my Beaufort variable, I have two master glyphs for the Regular weight of A, one wit…0 -
Re: What is expected of style linking for variable fonts?
It doesn’t matter what people expect, they don’t deserve faux! Never mind OpenType and Variable fonts, surely ordinary typographers should be able to get proper bold and italic. If the great software…0 -
Re: Why don't we hear about more use of variable fonts on the Web?
Those alternate glyphs are masters. The “weak zones” I refer to occur when neither the flat nor the pointed top are particularly appropriate. For Futura, between Regular and Heavy. (I don’t know how …2 -
Re: Overload by typefaces
To be specific as to how new technology can create emergent possibilities, consider the pseudo-random effect. First, about 20 years ago, Robert Slimbach, while working at Adobe, was able to utilize h…5
