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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: Display typeface Silk road
I quite like this design; it has the kind of ambiguous exoticism to it that does not get tedious. It reminds me of similar ornamental display types by folks like Margo Chase, Jonathan Barnbrook, Mile…3 -
Re: Laatz v. Zazzle
Also, I seem to recall that Minion and Myriad are examples of 30-year-old variable fonts with both copyrights and design patents, back when “variable” was called “multiple master.”0 -
Re: A list of fonts with support for Latin sigla a.k.a. scribal ligatures
I briefly wondered that myself, but taking their Gutenberg B42 fonts as an example, they are clearly different glyphs and different numbers of glyphs. There may be overlapping sources, but the librar…1
