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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 -
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
