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  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    John Savard: Well then, if weight, contrast, x-height and serif style don’t determine what a type design is, but are values controlled by a multi-axis parametric font, which is in effect a typeface d…
  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    It’s a new theory of a type designer. It’s not in law, as nobody appears to have yet addressed the matter in this light. Though I doubt I am the first to have the thought. The idea being that decisio…
  • Re: Laatz v. Zazzle

    The variable format has opened an intellectual property can-of worms. It used to be that an important part of the design of a typeface was the specific metric values of weight and x-height that the d…
  • Re: Typeface timeline

    rosea14 said: 1. Fontographer, 1988 2. eCommerce, 1998 James: Makambo was an earlier independent distributor/reseller, in 1999. *** I produced many more typefaces before OpenType, when the standard w…
  • Re: Diversification Postmortem

    Bowdlerize! Haven’t come across that word in a long time. Spot on, in a thread discussing boycotting.
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