Article mighty short on empirical examples. Or maybe just a list of what
makes, in the eyes of TP, a "quality" font?
Writing as a guy who "cracks open" a lot of fonts - both those offered
as licensed 'for-pay' products and also open-source and also dafont
anything goes fonts....
I see questionable work in "for-pay" fonts, and good work in free beer
fonts, it all depends.
My beef is that we still seem to be talking about fonts as tools for the
graphic arts. When it comes to fonts for the web, what is being offered is
still a joke. (Yes, there are always exceptions - don't pounce.)
Bottom line this: Quality is not what the maker puts in, it's what the
buyer/user gets out. The maker does not define what constitutes quality.
(Most importantly, do NOT equate the need for time-consuming fussiness with
"quality". A lot of fuss is indicative of nothing except an inefficient
manufacturing system.)
This notion is certainly not original to me. (Read Peter Drucker on the
subject, or Edward Deming - the father of modern Statistical Quality
Control in manufacturing.)
But, of course, when you fancy yourselves as the standard-bearers of high
culture as many in the type field seem to do, it's hard to accept the idea
that they truly are not able to recognize "quality".
It's the great unwashed (and unschooled) users who ultimately define what
"quality" is or isn't.
Personally, I couldn't give a crap how far away from my lower case o my
capital T is in the word "To". To me, that isn't quality. But if I do want
to adjust kerning, I'll use lettering.js.
rich
On Sunday, October 13, 2013 4:10:51 AM UTC-4, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Fun article on libre fonts from ATypI:
>
> http://www.thomasphinney.com/2013/10/free-fonts-revealed-and-reviled/
>
> --
> Cheers
> Dave
>
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