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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: Giving away fonts (typefaces)
Valuation is always subjective, but that doesn’t mean it is not subjectable to reason. A while ago, I was talking with a specialist in valuing companies, and he made two points that have stuck with m…2 -
Re: Giving away fonts (typefaces)
That will depend on a number of factors, including who the client is and how they intend to use the typeface (which in turn relates to what kind of typeface it is). At a minimum, the cost must cover …7 -
Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
No, it just means that for most of the purposes for which the majority of people use a pencil, this is the typical choice (that choice being influenced by previous choices that have resulted in this …1 -
Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
I tend to agree with a philosopher friend who calls Plato’s theory of forms the ‘original sin of philosophy’, the point at which ideas become treated as more important than things. Even if we accept …7
