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Re: Releasing variable fonts alongside static fonts
I've not encountered this. It doesn't seem like an intuitive terminology: I would have thought 'local' would be more common than 'static' in the sense of an installed fo…5 -
Re: Non-Latin digital incunabula?
It began life as her PhD, but was later revised and published. The first, UK edition is out of print, but there was a reprint in India that might still be available: Fiona Ross The Printed Bengali Ch…2 -
Re: Non-Latin digital incunabula?
Do you have a copy of Fiona's book on Bengali type? It covers the pre-PostScript digital technology pretty well, and of course her team at Linotype worked on a lot of different South Asian, Sout…5 -
Re: Reviving Type
Yes, but since the distance travelled from the original is greater it is also more varied, and that in itself seems to me interesting. I know in my own work there are aspects of derivation from histo…2 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
You're still having this conversation? Going back to the original post, is there perhaps a fundamental misunderstanding or mischaracterisation of the entire IBM Plex project? Looking through the…7
