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Re: How many type designers would use an AI assisted plug-in/app
IMO the best place for automated type design is for OCRing old books. You can now buy open-book scanners that compensate for the curvature of pages; my PDF reader can already OCR text bitmaps into a …1 -
Neutraface has The Guardian’s attention
The gentrification font: how a sleek typeface became a neighborhood omen As it happens, years ago I recommended the Neutraface house numbers from DWR to a friend who had bought and restored a mid-cen…1 -
Re: Neutraface has The Guardian’s attention
Heh, yeah, that’s The Guardian for you. Class warfare lurking in every font.* *class kerning does indeed lurk in many fonts2 -
Re: For the creation of an International Association of Type Designers. Post your proposals here.
I don’t earn a livelihood as a type designer or the employee of one, but I generally spend more on fonts each year than I spend on hardware or other software. Post-Monotype Myfonts has lost lots of d…1 -
Re: Myfonts/monotype New Agreement
Speaking as a font consumer, I simply want to be able to continue to buy a perpetual, per-CPU transferable font license with no stupid subscription scheme.2
