Re: [GFD] Tom Phinney on Libre Fonts

Vern, that's an unfair and unfounded accusation.

If I was trying to promote WebINK, I'd be doing it on the WebINK blog, not
my personal blog.

If I were promoting WebINK, in the section of that long blog post on
quality and talking about percentages of junk, I would say that I do my
best to ensure that WebINK has no crud, and that I have succeeded a good
99% or more of the time.

I do criticize Google web fonts, but only saying the exact same things I
have been saying directly to the two Daves for several years now, in the
spirit of constructive criticism, because I care about quality. If I was
just out to make a buck I would not have given that feedback privately and
passionately long before criticizing publicly.

BTW, quality is not about elites vs the masses. Everybody benefits from
well-crafted fonts, including casual users.

I happen to agree with you that there are a lot of well-crafted fonts that
are stultifyingly boring. But unlike technical quality, aesthetics are a
matter of opinion, and I wasn't trying to go there.

I also happen to think that a lot of creative and aesthetically interesting
are done by people who don't know how to make decent quality fonts (or
perhaps know but don't care, in some cases). I would love to see those
people learn how to make better quality fonts.

That's why I joined Crafting Type: I am eager to help teach the basics of
type design to more people, and to make sure that spacing, point placement
and various optical compensations are well covered in that discussion.

One thing I could have said more clearly in my blog post is that one can
get passable but not fabulous quality without a lot more work than the
amount required to make crap. Proper point placement and half-decent
spacing and so forth are not *that* hard, nor horribly slow once one has
the right work habits.

Cheers,

T






On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:23 PM, vernon adams <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> On 14 Oct 2013, at 15:18, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> Tom is just saying  "hey, use our stuff. Your stupid if you use that
> free stuff."
> >
> > No, he's not.
>
>
> Yes he is, you just don't realise it ;) See how well it worked!  It's the
> subliminal subtext  =8-)
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