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Re: Create metric-equivalent font
In metal, Times New Roman (Monotype) preceded Times (Linotype). The Times newspaper, like most others, used Linotype machines, so the design was adapted for Linotype setting pretty immediately. That …2 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
Use in design is hardly the only or, these days, even the primary value proposition for a font. Companies create metrics compatible fonts because they’re valuable to those companies. Metrics compatib…1 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
I think the concept of ownership is actually irrelevant, for the reasons you indicate: the rights to the font may be owned by someone who isn’t interested in either financially exploiting them via li…1 -
Re: History of medial decoration?
Rosart was my first thought too, but there are only more fully floriated examples in the small specimen. Maybe there is something closer to this style in the Harry Carter’s Enschedé book?1 -
Re: Quality of webfonts, esp. on Windows
Yes, that functionality was added a bit later, in response to complaints about the loss of x-direction deltas in the first release of ClearType. Initially, it didn’t seem to work reliably.1
