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Re: Jonathan Hoefler on type ai (on threads)
No, because type is not a bad imitation of calligraphy. Even when it was most directly referencing scribal page layout and script structure, type was never simply pastiche but was always also explori…7 -
Re: Jonathan Hoefler on type ai (on threads)
Let me clarify, or rephrase: it isn’t that the machine won’t be good at creating pastiches, but that creating pastiches is not a good thing. As I characterised it in the article I was writing: this i…1 -
Re: Jonathan Hoefler on type ai (on threads)
I was talking about typography, not typefaces. What Pablo and others have shown is that machine learning can produce pastiches of a wide range of things that have already been created by humans. Some…5 -
Re: Giving away fonts (typefaces)
Valuation is always subjective, but that doesn’t mean it is not subjectable to reason. A while ago, I was talking with a specialist in valuing companies, and he made two points that have stuck with m…2 -
Re: Giving away fonts (typefaces)
That will depend on a number of factors, including who the client is and how they intend to use the typeface (which in turn relates to what kind of typeface it is). At a minimum, the cost must cover …7
