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Re: Monotype buys Extensis
As I have said many times, the big type companies have been trying for years to resurrect the closed system of typesetting machinery in virtual, digital form. Adobe’s CS font subscription does this, …6 -
Re: The Problem with Text Rendering in Modern Software and Browsers
Most software uses font vertical metrics settings in the OS/2 or hhea tables to determine linespacing and distance from top of text frame, and most software offers users only fairly crude ways to cha…4 -
Re: Proof of Concept: Contextual Kerning UI for Glyphs 3
I suppose Nick is thinking of kerning in terms of local context, i.e. of kerning as an adjustment to the general spacing of glyphs when next to specific other glyphs. That’s a reasonable sort of comm…1 -
Re: Pricing: Client requests an expansion to one of my typefaces
Put another way: yes, a typeface may have value, but your skilled labour definitely does.2 -
Re: Pricing: Client requests an expansion to one of my typefaces
Yes. And plenty of them never recoup that loss. I put investing time and labour in creating a new typeface on a speculative basis in an entirely different bucket than doing work for a client. People …4
