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Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
It will generally still be easier to just go download a zipped filed containing the entire type family. It’s not as if they’re hard to find.2 -
Re: Modification Briefs - Best practices
The problem with “microtypography” is that it’s several levels of jargon deep. To understand what it means you already need to know general design terminology and the terminology of typography. So it…2 -
Re: A FontLab 6 intervention
There’s a lot that sounds compelling to me, but I wonder if they’ll ever get it all finished. There seems to be three versions worth of stuff happening here: rewriting the app, catching up to Glyphs,…1 -
Re: Private Label
Being independent used to mean being independent of Monotype, Linotype, ITC, or Adobe. I think that the meaning is changing to selling fonts independent of mass distributors, the knockoff type mills …1 -
Re: A new stem weight distribution?
I’ve played with linear, cube root (Stanley Hess), De Groot, and Impallari progressions. And I always come to the same conclusion: math is just a starting point. You still have to spend time looking …12
