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Re: fontmake v/s afdko
AFDKO and fontTools is an interesting case if you compare how they came to be. Both projects are opensource, but there is an important difference. AFDKO was developed in-house within Adobe, to fit Ad…3 -
Re: fontmake v/s afdko
AFDKO is an older set of tools and libraries that was created to convert between various font formats. Its most-used components were those for converting Type 1 fonts into CFF-based OpenType fonts, f…4 -
Re: Thoughts on Monotype and its subsidiaries?
That 30% sounds like it'd be worth to publish through a publisher that sits in a country that has a tax treaty with the U.S. — such publisher could then take a much smaller commission than the U.S. t…4 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
IBM Plex Serif Text is spectacularly legible on screen. And has ball terminals. I love it. The Sans is okay, but there are so many Sans designs out now that it's hard to be excited. The materials fea…1 -
Re: ATypI's (old) stance on cloning vs. yours
I can well-imagine that Bitstream may have used URW’s Ikarus tech. They had developed their own format and some tools over time, but they also did convert. But I’m reasonably sure that Bitstream’s fo…3
