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Re: Releasing variable fonts alongside static fonts
Ugh! GX is a defunct brand name for a display and layout technology that Apple abandoned in the 1990s. I recall that when Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, one of the first things he decreed was …5 -
Re: En dash = width of n?
There’s nothing wrong with that Except that what you've made are not em and en dashes. I really believe that fonts should contain proportional dashes of, at least, narrow, medium and wide widths. But…1 -
Re: Releasing variable fonts alongside static fonts
I've not encountered this. It doesn't seem like an intuitive terminology: I would have thought 'local' would be more common than 'static' in the sense of an installed font being used to display a doc…5 -
Re: Non-Latin digital incunabula?
Do you have a copy of Fiona's book on Bengali type? It covers the pre-PostScript digital technology pretty well, and of course her team at Linotype worked on a lot of different South Asian, Southeast…5 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
You're still having this conversation? Going back to the original post, is there perhaps a fundamental misunderstanding or mischaracterisation of the entire IBM Plex project? Looking through the publ…7
