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Re: Your opinion on super heavy discounts on MyFonts.
I think some people aren't really getting the mechanics of how the Hot New Fonts chart can be gamed. It's not just a matter of offering cheap fonts. Nothing wrong with that. It's using the deep disco…1 -
Re: Your opinion on super heavy discounts on MyFonts.
It's all about the curve. Since the list is based on both newness and hotness, I think the more a font costs, the more hotness weight its sales should have on the chart. I shouldn't be able to take a…6 -
Re: Your opinion on super heavy discounts on MyFonts.
When they first added Hot New Fonts (maybe a decade ago?), I did some of those heavy discounts to see if it would make a difference. It really worked. Like, wow. Even if a font wasn't particularly in…5 -
Re: Code Monkey
I know how you feel about all the 'code talk'. For display type you probably don't need to do much in the way of coding. Naming, encoding and metrics are tricky in FontLab. The interface is counter-i…3 -
Re: TypeFacet Autokern
A kerning tool that would be useful to me is something that would flag pairs with potential problems. And then it would talk... "Ray, did you really mean for the Ø to collide with that quotation…11