John Hudson

  • Re: Monospace Font Spacing

    1. There isn’t a single, standard approach to spacing monospaced or fixed-width typefaces, because there isn’t a single approach to their design. The important thing to bear in mind is that because t…
  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    @"John Savard" Translations are derivative works, and digital revivals of metal types are a form of translation. As such, they are derived from the existing metal type, which has certain ch…
  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    Nick: A discussion about ease of copying is not necessarily a discussion of intellectual property. As soon as it becomes a discussion of intellectual property, I think the legal aspect forces itself …
  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    Two thoughts occur immediately in response to this: 1) Are all ideas ownable? If not, who determines whether a particular idea can be owned? Insofar as that question demands an answer, I wonder wheth…
  • Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment

    I don’t think a woodcut looks more ‘human made’ than something made by a human on a computer. They’re just different media with their own characteristics. There’s certain slickness to rasterised bezi…
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