-
Re: Figure colon - Stylistic set or Contextual alternate
I agree that for time expressions this can look better, particularly at larger sizes (e.g. on a phone splash screen, which was the primary use case for Apple’s San Francisco implementation).I might n…2 -
Re: Corporate rip-off of my design
Asenda Law is a UK firm with experience enforcing font EULAs. Two of their lawyers recently participated in an I Love Typography seminar on the subject, and they understand type and the font business…8 -
Re: How do you teach type design?
I’m sort of with Chris on this, while at the same time I think it is important to understand the development of a writing system as involving structures and dynamics derived from tools. In this, I do…4 -
Re: Type design apps/software for young people
TypeTool from FontLab is worth checking out. It is their introductory tool, priced similarly to Glyphs Mini. Another Windows option would be FontCreator from High-Logic, which is often overlooked but…4 -
Re: diverging from conventions for Arabic joining
The majority of Arabic typography has involved some simplification of the script, and this precedes hot metal technologies. Most European reductions of the script to type involved a crude understandi…2
