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Re: Apple's ancient Macintosh Font Editor app
Excellent thread, Mark! Zuzana Licko did indeed use Font Editor as her first editor. It was used to start the Oakland fonts and others, but not for long because it crashed on her all the time and she…4 -
Re: LinkedIn groups to follow
Why LinkedIn specifically? (I understand if that’s your preference, but I also recommend joining Mastodon and following the active type design community there, primarily at typo.social.)7 -
Re: Jan Middendorp has died.
Jan had the title “Type Writer” on his business card. I always wanted to emulate that career, and will probably spend the rest of mine trying to live up to his.3 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
I'm particularly impressed with the “toilet seat” lettering in that it echoes the pen strokes of the accompanying artwork. I wonder what fonts (if any) the system uses as models.5 -
Re: Type Design Hardware?
My favorite piece of historical hardware specifically made for type design is the Ikarus digitizer. Here’s a photo of an early model, courtesy DTL: You can see a later model being used by Jim Rimmer …6
