We used 4096 a couple of times on Microsoft project, I recall, but for TTFs. For a long time, there were bugs in third-party PDF creators that presumed a 1000 UPM for CFF fonts, causing scaling and/o… (View Post)
Passed off as Law, is the problem. This implies correctness in perpetuity. With book typography, particularly in the pre-digital eras, you may have had more of a need for expediency of consistency. B… (View Post)
@"donat raetzo" If you're having trouble getting what you want out of FL8, you might also consider running Chris Simpkin's dehinter tool https://github.com/source-foundry/dehinter. Aside fr… (View Post)
@"Thomas Phinney" It is important to differentiate between "manual hinting" intended for GDI, and that intended for DWrite. I spent many hours reviewing, correcting, and mastering… (View Post)
It really depends on the use case(s) and client(s). But mostly, for most fonts and font designers/developers? No. I will be very curious to know/check the degree to which the new MS Aptos has careful… (View Post)
I've been hearing stories about monotype's "extortionate license enforcement" literally as long as I've been in fonts. As tempting as it is to believe, I always remind myself that there are… (View Post)
Fwiw, I just confirmed that ALMOST all the Aptos family has no glyph-level manual hinting. The Narrow styles however are the new default in Excel, and Excel still uses old-school GDI rendering (!) so… (View Post)
This video was posted by a railway enthusiast but he discusses the subject with a great deal of understanding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfabkIhRRxs (View Post)
Hi Tyler, get your portfolio out to the foundries and see what response you get. You can do this whilst still at the agency. You could do a gradual transition from agency to freelance by taking on jo… (View Post)