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Re: Old font tools still in use?
I still mainly use FontLab5 on my old offline iMac with other non-subscription software, just so familiar and comfortable with it all (including the original Creative Suite), but have Glyphs and CC A…1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
Those Cooper images are taken from: The Book of Oz Cooper, published by the Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago, in 1949.1 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
@PabloImpallari Well, you might look a little further afield than the digital domain. Cooper Black originated in Oz’s lettering, which does not seem to have been traced over Bodoni! Cooper Black was …3 -
Re: Regular vs Book
In the digital era, Fontlab, for one, contributed to the confusion, by assigning the numerical value of 400 to all three of Book, Regular and Normal weights, in its Font Info dialogue. Therefore, if …2 -
Re: What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?
Especially prior to the introduction of the “Retina” high-res screen, we tended to standardize x-height and overshoot by means of alignment zones. Similarly, stem widths were standardized (and still …1
