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Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
From conversations at ATypI and TypeCon, I think a lot of us presumed this was coming, and that the push to acquire of other foundries’ font IP was to get as many notional assets onto the books befor…8 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
Helvetica had fallen out of fashion for a period in the 1970s, though, to the degree that when Neville Brody used it for The Face in the early 1980s it was seen as something of a revival.1 -
Re: When did Helvetica and Times New Roman reach such levels of influence?
They were standard fonts in the first Apple LaserWriter printer in the mid-1980s, which led to pretty much every operating system adopting them—or metrics-compatible clones—as core fonts.4 -
Re: Draw & Digitize Workshop
Depending how curves are configured and how existing points are placed, algorithmically adding extrema points can cause kinks or other problems. Much better for the human font maker to take control o…3 -
Re: Draw & Digitize Workshop
Which rasterisers? :) I would be cautious about TrueType renderers calculating bounding boxes and sidebearing distances when extrema lack on-curve points. As recently as the ISO OFF meeting last mont…2
