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Re: Type Design Books Collection
I second Tom’s recommendation. Some others: Creative Lettering Today by Michael Harvey (several editions; try to find the 1996 edition, which has the largest section on digital type design). The Stro…3 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
But I’ve not seen anything that I want to use, and I think you’ve missed my point, which is about the reflexive aspect of type design. The prompts used in AI generation are at once too specific—‘too …2 -
Re: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment
I think the problem with these text faces is that they not only look derivative, but they’re also boring and rather characterless. They look like what they are: cobbled together from images of other …4 -
Re: What do you think about Fontself as of today in 2023?
Are you Windows based? Or Linux? If Windows based, you could consider FontCreator from High-Logic. It is commercial software, but very much cheaper than FontLab. The Home Edition is $49 and has all t…5 -
Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
If you have a font development workflow that is based around a variable design space, then anywhere within that design space can be designated the default instance (i.e. the set of outlines written t…1
