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Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
Historical aside: No, the intent was to introduce a format distinction between desktop and web fonts, so that there was a minimal protective wrapper to limit cross-use of the same font file. The cont…5 -
Re: Dalton Maag is recruiting
I work with collaborators in various countries around the world, and I always try to pay everyone the same amount—at least proportionally to the overall budget of individual projects—, regardless of …12 -
Re: FontBakery checking
As a side note: this check is not limited to Font Bakery. Microsoft’s venerable Font Validator tool performed the same check and also gave an error warning if these two data differed. When I am doing…1 -
Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
That is a false expectation. Even in metal type it was not unusual for vertical kerns to overhang the body height, even for some styles of European scripts. In digital type, it is the norm rather tha…1 -
Re: Type Design Project Opinion
That describes your working process, but what is your thinking process? I find it helpful to think of a typeface as a collection of answers to one or more questions, and being able to articulate the …3
