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Re: Using mutiple editors when working on a font family
I have been thinking recently that all aspects of OpenType, including GDEF, GSUB, and GPOS data should be natively expressed in UFO—i.e. not bolted on via inclusion of a .fea file—such that font tool…2 -
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: Jonathan Hoefler on type ai (on threads)
No, because type is not a bad imitation of calligraphy. Even when it was most directly referencing scribal page layout and script structure, type was never simply pastiche but was always also explori…7 -
Re: Jonathan Hoefler on type ai (on threads)
Let me clarify, or rephrase: it isn’t that the machine won’t be good at creating pastiches, but that creating pastiches is not a good thing. As I characterised it in the article I was writing: this i…1 -
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
