John Hudson

  • Re: [OTVar] hidden axis flag

    Laurence: I don't like the idea that axes need to be registered in order to show up in UIs, which is what this implies. I don't like it because I can imagine design-specific axes that very much requi…
  • Re: [OTVar] Changing tracking/HVAR

    Take a look on the Web at the situations in which authors use CSS letterspacing. There's plenty of use of this to space out all-caps and smallcaps (and lowercase, by sheep-stealers, of course), and t…
  • Re: [OTVar] hidden axis flag

    Pablo, those kinds of advanced settings options are the domain of user interfaces, not of fonts. Ultimately, the font maker has no control over what features of a font are exposed in the UI, or ever …
  • Re: Marking Copies of Fonts

    Again, and as I said, serialisation is not about identifying a 'perpetrator' responsible for distributing a font illegally. It is about being able to say to someone using the font 'Excuse me, but thi…
  • Re: Marking Copies of Fonts

    The point of serialising fonts with licensee data isn't to trace the source of pirated versions but to be able to clearly identify unlicensed use. In this respect, serialising fonts is no different f…
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