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Re: Google Fonts: Your Questions, Answered
There's a very good op-ed by Joe Nocera in today's New York Times entitled "Will Digital Networks Ruin Us?" It concerns Jaron Lanier's book "Who Owns the Future." h…2 -
Re: Google Fonts: Your Questions, Answered
Patrick, What you are writing about is the here and now, without much view to the future. The making and selling of fonts is not significantly different from any other kind of publishing, a field I k…1 -
Re: Google Fonts: Your Questions, Answered
Pablo said (several times): "I still think that they are an entry point, growing the market for commercial fonts." Really? On what do you base such thinking? In an environment of scarcity o…3 -
Re: Asymmetric spacing of italic sidebearings
This is how it was done traditionally, in metal, and how it has to be done still, especially with oldstyle italics. Here's why: In these designs, the right-most elements of the capitals, the arm…4 -
Re: What was “Japan paper”?
The term "Japan paper," as opposed to "Japanese paper," was used to describe a Western-made smooth sheet with a slightly mottled surface, inspired (if only vaguely) by Japanese pr…1
