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Re: What character set do you usually reach for as a default when you start a new font?
These days: Some extra Latin, Greek, Extended Cyrillic, Vietnamese & Pan-Nigerian languages. I skip deprecated characters, historical characters and characters only used in Esperanto and Pinyin. …2 -
Re: First font license
Sometimes it really pays to be conventional. I've tried being more permissive with my agreements over the years and I've found that it was often confusing to customers. I included acquiesce…9 -
Re: need some critics for my first font
Don't be precious with your kerning and spacing. I don't even think twice about clearing kerning and resetting all my sidebearings. Just pull the trigger and start over; it's easier th…6 -
Re: Arcane font licensing questions
A lot of fonts available on Fontspring have app licenses available. The standard app license allows what you described. If you throw one of my fonts in the shopping cart, you can check out the licens…1 -
Re: typophile.com, helvetica & fascism
In the 1998 book Paul Renner: The Art of Typography by Christoper Burke is about Futura, but there's some interesting writing about the relationship between Nazis and sans-serif typefaces.1
