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Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
I’ve been enjoying this thread, covering a time I remember well. It was the era of the democratization of font technology (at least for the hegemonic Latin alphabet); its (necessary) successor, the O…1 -
Re: Hebrew need for another mark in unicode - Sheva Na, Dagesh Hazeq
Ben, regarding the ḥolam malei for alef: There is a major phonemic difference between the circumstances of ḥolam ḥaser vav and your suggestion of a ḥolam malei alef glyph. The sound of ḥolam malei va…1 -
AI-Generated Art and Copyright Infringement
The New Yorker recently posted an article about the class-action lawsuit filed in November by attorneys Matthew Butterick and Joseph Saveri against the AI image generators Midjourney, Stable Diffusio…3 -
Re: Le Monde Journal vs. Spectral Lawsuit
Of course, the two fonts are similar; and of course, they have significant differences. (I find Spectral to be the superior font, easier to read, but that’s not the point here.) If I were arguing for…2 -
Re: Notes on the rendering of Garamond and Caslon typefaces when set at small sizes. Also, a request.
Indeed, that was an over-generalization. A better question would be to ask what benchmarks are you using to judge the performance of type in the medium of its intended use. The variables in inkjet pr…1
