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Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Microsoft VTT was based on Sampo Kaasila's Visual TypeMan and/or Visual StingRay, if I recall correctly.2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Ares Fontmonger was a po-man's Fontographer. They also made Font Chameleon, a sort of early MM implementation that Adobe bought to remove from the market. There was also a tool named Softy.2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
On the Apple // platform there were Apple Mechanic, Shape Mechanic and Font Mechanic from Beagle Bros.1 -
Digital Khatt and Visual Metafont
And now for something completely different. “DigitalKhatt is an Arabic typesetter based on a Metafont-designed parametric font that can generate a glyph with a given width during layout and justifica…1 -
Re: Returning to Type Design After 20-Year Hiatus
Twenty years ago I didn’t have the confidence or patience to actually draw the letters. I was good enough at programming OpenType features to catch some font engineering gigs here and there, before O…1
