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Re: I trained a neural network to kern a font (mostly)
Theunis, I wasn’t addressing drudgery, but the quality of a type design. By artificially removing the type designer’s exercise of taste in determining spacing, design veers towards impoverished me-to…4 -
Re: Plex; IBM's new font identity model
A big IBM insert in today’s Globe and Mail. I note that the word “IBM” in Plex Sans, featuring a serifed I, evokes the slab-serifed “I” of the company’s logo.4 -
Re: Junctions and 1 or 2 nodes
Ironically, the two-point node scales better. That’s because it is not so dependent on the resolution of the rendering mechanism. Also, the sharpness of a single point node, especially in the groin o…5 -
Re: Type-design education: its importance and (future) role
Given that it takes a while to make a living as an entrepreneur in the self-publishing sector of the type design business (and this is how many type designers work)—through amassing enough retail fon…8 -
Re: What are 'true italics'?
English is the odd one out among the other European languages… English is not really a European language. That’s why it doesn’t have those funny little marks over a lot of the letters.2
