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Re: The Market for Expensive Cheese Graters
This seems outrageous only if one assumes that this is a role replacement for the old, pre-iMac desktop machine. It's not. When the iMac was introduced, Apple split their desktop market, recognising …6 -
Re: .sc and .a glyph types
Adobe insist on a one-to-one mapping from characters to glyph variants that can be back-traced by parsing the glyph name. This means that they need to duplicate smallcap glyphs to distinguish those m…6 -
Re: <aalt> before <ccmp>
Correct. For what it's worth: in twenty years I have never bothered to implement the aalt feature in any fonts. It's a silly feature. Adobe thought they would need it in order to implement glyph pale…4 -
Re: Never Mind Starling
I agree, Dyana: I never thought Mike was perpetrating a hoax, and there are aspects of the broader story, about the relations between the UK and US Monotype companies — independent of the Burgess/Tim…3 -
Re: Fontlab - Variable Axes Parameters ?
Thanks, Thomas. I didn't note the blue dot as indicating the default instance — I'm still getting familiar with the FLVI UI —, so was presuming that the Thin would be default, based on its relationsh…1