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Re: History of type communities, and its future?
I have been involved with many online and email-based type communities, beginning with the comp.fonts Usenet group, which for a period in the mid-1990s was a pretty amazing place where I first encoun…7 -
Re: Jan Middendorp has died.
Saddened to hear that. He was always good company, and his Dutch Type book and other writings remain worth reading long after they were first published. His illness took a toll on his mobility, so I …4 -
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: Kern On—Semi Automated Kerning Plugin for Glyphs
I continue to use it for syllabic scripts, where the processing power saves a huge amount of time and produces a large set of visual kerning values. Most recently, we worked with Tim and with Kevin K…3 -
Re: Using mutiple editors when working on a font family
Nick FL6 definitely had teething problems. I stuck with FLS5 through most of that period, and only started using FL7 when I needed to begin doing variable work. FL8 is very good. I tried using Glyphs…6
