Member Que… Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 You should ask Martin Kotulla, and you might as well ask Sean Cavanaugh about the Fontsite opentype collection... Link to comment
Member Que… Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 You are hilarious, tell me, what will you do this weekend? hanging around with Sean and Martin and having a good old ball with 2,222 font names that I just showed and no multiple variation font names (Rough, Funky, Dirty, etc.) and featuring approx. 15,000+ typefaces in Windows & Macintosh OpenType format that each comes in two forms - "TrueType" and "PostScript" - marking as a total of approx. 30,000+ typefaces included. This party, which may cost very expensive, should be LOTS of fun, be sure to post some snapshots, straight to us, off course! Link to comment
Member Joh… Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 DDD1988Redux, a simple question: is spamming discussion boards what you wanted to be doing with your life when you were a child and imagined what future you might have? Link to comment
Member hra… Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 There's a very thin line between a very smart robot and a very stupid human. hhp Link to comment
Member old… Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 There's a very thin line between a very smart robot and a very stupid human. Not that I've noticed…except that very stupid humans can vote. Bummer. Link to comment
Member Té… Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 @hrant – Look at "Computer Stupidities". I do not think any robot with a skerrick of intelligence, let alone self-respect, would be caught out like that. Link to comment
Member Ind… Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Thank you very much. This is actually a useful list to have. Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 +1 to what Indra said. Thanks. Better yet, how did you derive it? Link to comment
Member hra… Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Can you prove you're human? hhp Link to comment
Member HVB… Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 @Derek When you post long lists, it would be much easier for everyone if you could either post them to a website (providing a link here) or at least convert the format to a plain old comma-separated list instead of a three or four-yard long vertically scrolling text list :) Personally, I find your lists quite useful. It's nice to have fairly complete lists of these collections - no matter what their origins may be. - Herb Link to comment
Member Que… Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 might be interesting to find out what softmaker have to say: http://www.softmaker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11972&p=42225#p42225 they seem to know Derek, as do the MyFonts people, apparently. I don't know what to think about this now. If, Derek, you do understand what I am saying, please read the words by mr Kotulla in the Softmaker forum. It seems at least some things you have said are not true, according to him. I am interested in real knowledge on these subjects, but now it is hard to tell if it is, or if it isjust fantasy. Please explain why you post this stuff... sorry, if I hurt your feelings with previous posts, but please understand that this can easily be misunderstood as spam. Link to comment
Member Uli… Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 HVB: For your convenience, I uploaded a ASCII file here:http://www.sanskritweb.net/forgers/megafont.txt Queneau: The list is no "baloney", as Mr. Kotolla said at his sofmaker forum. In fact, the list is more or less Mr. Kotulla's own font renaming list. Please note: I only stated that the above LIST is no "baloney". Link to comment
Member Que… Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Ah Uli, glad you chime in here. You seem to know a lot about all this stuff. I would like to know what are current and/or former connections between URW (URW++), Softmaker and FontSite. I still do not understand it. Basically the comparable fonts by URW, SM and FS have the same outlines (I checked) so they can be set in one paragraph without noticable difference. The do have different kerning and character sets though, and the FS fonts are now in OpenType with several OT features. They seem to develop the same base material on their own. So do Softmaker. But I thought that Softmaker licensed the fonts from URW, or bought the rights when they went bankrupt. But they claim to have licensed them from URW++ (URWs succesor), which brings the question if they now activily work together or not? I would not be interested in this, if the core set of fonts (outlines, metrics) was not sound, which they are, but I am curious how they can be offered for such different prices, under so many different names.... BTW It seems a core set of fonts that features on the SM collections, seem to be on almost all cheap font CDs here, like the Data Becker CD, Franzis font collections, Clickart packages, Serif font collections, etc. It's a jungle out there... Link to comment
Member old… Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Derek, Forgive me for pointing this out, but this entire thread smells suspiciously of Spam… Link to comment
Member Té… Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 It's blatant advertising, sure, but at least it is relevant to this site. Link to comment
Member Kar… Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Just found this discussion on myfonts: http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/forum/case/160396/ Link to comment
Member Que… Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I must say: impressive, even if you just made it all up. Jeez Link to comment
Member Té… Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 Too bad that bumping a big post doesn't get it re-read. Not! ]:-D (That's the 'devilish laughter' smiley, btw.) Link to comment
Member Kar… Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 ]:-D (That's the 'devilish laughter' smiley, btw.) I have always used }:-D, the square bracket striking me as more of a crown. Link to comment
Member Té… Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 Odd. The curly bracket reminds me of a tiara... Link to comment
Member Kar… Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 Hmmm, perhaps it is best not to dabble in such things... I do like this combo though {]:-D Link to comment
Member alu… Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 Karl...that's some interesting reading. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 Get his teacher to explain that here too. hhp Link to comment
Member Joh… Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 If Mr Despie is indeed autistic and obsessed with type, maybe there is some way to channel that obsession into something more interesting and useful to the community than a collection of clones of old fonts that no one much cares about. Seriously, this is deeply boring stuff: the detritus of the desktop publishing rush to digitise. The diamonds among the heaps of slag are few and far between, and most of them have long since been produced in better digital versions by the true trademark owners. Link to comment
Member Kar… Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 It is something like a cross between Luc and Uli's content but without their unique filters and could be put to far better uses. I suppose if it continues that it may well attract the same attention as it did on MyFonts and Wikipedia. Link to comment
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