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FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE
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Gerald Giampa on OpenType
I quote Gerald Giampa (Lanston) from this discussion on OpenType: "Personally I do not believe Jim Rimmer will participate in Open Type. Open Type will be the Great Typographical White Elephant. The singular good feature about Open Type is "cross platform". Titch tich! There is more important aspects of typography than adding idiotic symbols and even longer kerning tables. Your typographical time should be spent making a beautiful font. If you have any additional time go boating. They are asking instead that you become a data entry clerk. As for the rest, auto ugly symbols are fine with me. I don't use them, but be my guest. As if I am going to spend time making beautiful pie signs. Or Greek, I know nothing of Greek. What, I am going to design them a typeface? think again! I am just not that arrogant. Who's fooling who. Frankly accents are bad enough. All these languages with their accents. At least in English we don't use accents as a crutch. I'm surrounded. I better shut up about the accents. Better cancel my vacation to Greece for that matter. The Open Type format lost me when it was decided that optical scaling was of no particular importance. One suggestion was real nifty. Make a font for every size. Ask our friend who made Founder's Caslon what he thinks of that idea? Maybe we can give him our libraries and have him do it for free. A gazillion fonts does "not" make a solution. User hostility?" |
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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html |