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Re: More questions on Monotype's subscription royalty model
This AI stuff is going off-topic for this thread, but is something I would be happy to discuss elsewhere. I can think of a bunch of things that I think machine learning is going to struggle with beyo…2 -
Re: Reasons to NOT Standardize Cap-Height Across Font Library
Relative vertical proportions of x-height, cap height, and ascenders* are, historically, important idiomatic features of styles, and the rationalisation of these tends to dilute the stylistic differe…2 -
Re: Microsoft to Choose New Default Font to Replace Calibri
And around readability research. But I wonder if the pressure of the neo-grot fashion will be too much to resist, at least at the document default level?1 -
Re: History of type communities, and its future?
I have been involved with many online and email-based type communities, beginning with the comp.fonts Usenet group, which for a period in the mid-1990s was a pretty amazing place where I first encoun…7 -
Re: Jan Middendorp has died.
Saddened to hear that. He was always good company, and his Dutch Type book and other writings remain worth reading long after they were first published. His illness took a toll on his mobility, so I …4
