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Re: Google Fonts: Your Questions, Answered
Pablo, font foundries embraced webfonts as soon as there was a format distinction that made it possible to ringfence the huge install base of desktop fonts not licensed for use on the web. That'…1 -
Re: Google Fonts: Your Questions, Answered
Model 3: You are paid upfront to develop a font that is exclusively licensed by the client for X amount of time. After this, you sell commercial licenses to financially partake of the ongoing and pot…2 -
Re: TTFAutohint: Grayscale / GDI / DW ?
Will said GDI use affect web fonts and new software, or is it limited to backwards-compatibility for old software? Not just old software, in that I'm pretty sure there are still people writing n…2 -
New Microsoft size-specific design selection mechanism
I've confirmed that I am allowed to talk publicly about this now, so here goes... Matthew Carter's new Sitka* typeface family ships as 24 fonts with Windows 8.1. The standard Windows 4-styl…3 -
Re: Application side character compositing: a + dieresis → adieresis
We should be careful to distinguish what happens in text normalisation (encoding) from what happens in display (layout engines and fonts). Software needs to be able to handle both NFC and NFD text st…1
