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Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Please see Thomas’ correction to my post, above. Whatever Adobe’s intent was with the purchase, I agree the end result is regrettable from an end user perspective, though I don’t claim to know what k…1 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Somehow I forgot RoboFog, the customized version of Fontographer 3.5 that changed type design forever by integrating Python, later spawning RoboFab then RoboFont.1 -
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
