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Re: Using mutiple editors when working on a font family
I’ve always used multiple tools when developing fonts, and regularly collaborate with people who use other tools. The UFO format has been important in opening up this kind of multi-tool design and pr…1 -
Re: Music?
I have tapes of the experimental, arthymic percussion group I was part of in the late 1980s, but I wouldn’t recommend them for a type design soundtrack or, indeed, for listening to at all.1 -
Re: Jonathan Hoefler on type ai (on threads)
I wrote some speculative thoughts on machine typography as a coda to a chapter on typographic technology (not yet published). The thought I had is that the machine is likely to be very good at produc…2 -
Re: Music?
I associate Baskerville more with Handel, albeit at a remove, since Baskerville was based in Birmingham. Handel’s life and career overlap directly with the development of the style of written and eng…4 -
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
