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Re: Type design hot takes
Once Google buys out and owns all existing type designs, every glyph in every font will be encoded inside a newly expanded 64-bit Unicode standard.1 -
Re: Type design hot takes
1. Adobe's worst contribution to type design is the Th ligature. I still love Slimbach's designs regardless, but there needs to be an easy way to turn off just the Th substitution. 2. I don…1 -
Re: Any thoughts about Creative Fabrica?
Speaking of Monotype and weird downmarket storefronts, Monotype is selling ten fonts for $5 in the Microsoft Windows Store as a “Christmas” font pack, including some rather well-made newer designs li…4 -
Re: Applications without OpenType feature support
Free/OSS apps with imperfect but generally improving support for OT features include Inkscape and Scribus. One quirk of Inkscape is that certain less common features (such as SWSH) are accessible onl…1 -
Re: Origins of PT Serif
Other designs that come to mind are Droid Serif and Cambria. And I should emphasize the subjectivity of my wording “reminds me of” as opposed to “looks like.” The overall color and proportions strike…3
