Ray Larabie · President

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  • Re: What are 'true italics'?

    Ray LarabieRay Larabie
    I feel like there was backlash against mechanical slanting in the 1990s up until recently as a reaction to application slanting and autoslanted typefaces that appeared in early DTP days. I think the …

  • Re: Anti-Ink-Traps

    Ray LarabieRay Larabie
    I don't have any examples but on a cancelled Playstation 2 project, I wanted to to get some small text on the screen, black on white. It's no problem on a monitor but with consumer level te…

  • Re: Opentype features I wish to use

    Ray LarabieRay Larabie
    I haven't tried this myself but maybe Font Squirrel Webfont Generator's OpenType flattening feature could be used to convert to a flattened TTF for desktop use. fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfo…

  • Re: Launch Timing

    Ray LarabieRay Larabie
    Font distributors take longer to launch fonts in July and August. If you launch in August, there's a good chance it won't be released until September. Also, I imagine a lot of type designer…

  • Re: Efficiency in kerning pairs

    Ray LarabieRay Larabie
    The fact that fonts in previous centuries had little to no kerning seems irrelevant to how fonts are made today. Those designers were working against certain technical limitations. Technical limitati…
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