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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 -
Re: RTL Kerning of punctuation/numerals in InDesign
The numeral characters have strong LTR directionality, so even though they are occurring within an overall RTL context, they are processed as LTR. This means that the run segmentation for glyph proce…1 -
Re: We need a tutorial on how to create a font tester in HTML / CSS / JS
Hi Igor. I suspect you would be able to license a type tester from among the various ones that already exist. The one we’re using for our upcoming new website was written by Kenneth Ormandy, and he p…2
