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Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
No, it just means that for most of the purposes for which the majority of people use a pencil, this is the typical choice (that choice being influenced by previous choices that have resulted in this …1 -
Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
I tend to agree with a philosopher friend who calls Plato’s theory of forms the ‘original sin of philosophy’, the point at which ideas become treated as more important than things. Even if we accept …7 -
Re: Applications without OpenType feature support
Also, I think Affinity tools remain sadly lacking in any complex script support, and with no easy path to adding it due to insistence on making their own text engine instead of utilising HarfBuzz.3 -
Re: Flipping alternates
There are a few ways you could handle this as you describe, but I am questioning the notion of using insertion of a space to trigger the optional behaviour. Ideally, affecting the appearance of text …1 -
Re: Pricing
I’ve never thought of this in terms of risk management. I’m glad your model is working for you, Miles, and I am not someone who ever thought there should be only one model at use in the type market, …6
