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Re: How big is the type design industry?
There is no such thing as a type design industry, just as there is no book writing industry, film directing industry, or automobile designing industry. The numbers being discussed here refer primaril…2 -
Re: The vinyl records of font formats
Vinyl is lossless. It is an analog medium that reproduces sound waves continuously, whereas digital media samples those waves, losing information in between the samples. A moot point at higher sampli…0 -
Re: The vinyl records of font formats
“Distort” is rather a loaded word. By the same token, one might say that the process of letterpress printing “distorts” the shape of type. The crucial thing is that concept, design and production be …0 -
Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
There is already a perfectly good technical term for this kind of thing: Metafont, coined by Donald Knuth in 1979. (The classical Greek prefix meaning “beyond”—hence Metafont would cover both “restri…0 -
Re: [OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
Any OpenType font with features is a variable font, in as much as it can vary the glyph that sets a character—especially one with Stylistic Sets that cover an entire character set. Slider Font might …1
