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Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
Type Network dedicated a lot of effort this year to talking about and promoting variables (and testing them, and shipping them), but I’ll only say they are not exactly burning up the charts yet — and…3 -
Re: License for fonts that come with the operating system
Note that Adobe has nothing to do with OS fonts (specifically, the fonts that are installed along with your OS). Adobe often does install fonts along with its own apps, and those are covered by Adobe…1 -
Re: Type design hot takes
My take: The ‘Th’ ligature is not a problem, only its design. I think it’s easy for designers to forget that a ligature is supposed to fix an optical problem — to eliminate a distraction, make text e…3 -
Re: Free fonts are good→free fonts are bad
With regard to “free fonts,” I think they occupy a space that is increasingly marginal. I’d say commercial type is made, on average, with the most care, and open source fonts perhaps next, because th…6 -
Re: Why the link on the first zero in %?
I can’t really answer your question, but it’s always seemed like a natural connection to me. (Way better than, say, a c_t ligature.) I’ve always assume it’s an outgrowth of some handwritten source.2
