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Re: Claude 5.5 creating fonts from handwriting?
But ‘find the path of the pen in each letter’ is exactly what it did not do. It found the centre line of shapes in an image, and as Ray notes there is nothing new about this. It did not find the path…3 -
Re: ATypI 2026 Sharjah – who is going?
Today, a Polish colleague on typo.social asked about the topic of Alexandra Korolkova’s presentation in Sharjah, wondering whether ‘we trust a people siding with colonising agenda to make decisions o…22 -
Re: Autokerner: free spacing and kerning for FontLab 8, all masters in one run
@"Simon Cozens" Further to this — and even further off-topic, or on-topic depending on your sympathies —: there is a tendency not only to think of the Luddites as foolish people who tried t…9 -
Re: Autokerner: free spacing and kerning for FontLab 8, all masters in one run
Does it, though? Can we take a moment to talk about why you think spacing is a ‘specific pain point’ for designers? I will accept that some amount of the work of kerning (special spacing) is a pain p…4 -
Re: A call for better metadata
This is the basic problem of long-living software like fonts. Obviously, if we were starting from scratch, we could make everything clean and tidy and get it all right the first time (ha!), but the O…7
