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Re: NYT: Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department’s Official Typeface
I for one think it is entirely excellent that the US State Department is reverting to using a typeface designed by a committed Marxist who was imprisoned during WW1 as a conscientious objector. Bravo!10 -
Re: Variable font weight in design app works not for italics/obliques
This might be due to an error in the STAT table, missing a mapping between the weight and italic styles. Without examining the font, this is just guesswork, though, and I don’t have experience making…1 -
Re: Industry Letter to Copyright Office - Please Share
Where is the letter? Are people actually allowed to read a draft before agreeing to sign their names to it? I would absolutely trust Monotype to fuck this up and even further diminish protection for …5 -
Re: Weight of a printing press stereotype plate?
I’m really intrigued about the circumstances of this request. Trying to think of a legal context in which the weight of a stereotype plate would matter. Was one thrown at someone?1 -
Re: additional ligatures do not show up – what might be wrong?
Not sure why those five substitutions in particular are not working: the code looks fine. A couple of comments though: The order of substitutions matter, and for ligatures you generally want to go fr…3
