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Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
My workflow: I was working as a graphic designer at the time, with font making an emerging side gig. My software environment comprised Fontographer, for making fonts—and, for testing them, which was …3 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
To John Savard’s point, Hudson and I are splitting hairs, but that is a very typographic pursuit. As we all attempt to come to terms with new technology, new perspectives emerge. I doubt I would have…4 -
Re: Le Monde Journal vs. Spectral Lawsuit
Pablo: The idea is quite basic: if you give people something for free, they will be less inclined to pay somebody else for a comparable product. Hardly bullshit. Your “developing the market” theory i…2 -
Re: Returning to Type Design After 20-Year Hiatus
I often feel like I’ve stopped designing type, so much of my work in recent years has been updating designs from my most prolific era—20 years ago. Back then, pre-Opentype, It didn’t take very long t…6 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
The variable format has opened an intellectual property can-of worms. It used to be that an important part of the design of a typeface was the specific metric values of weight and x-height that the d…0
