On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 00:25 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Josh Andler wrote:
Synthesized font faces... Yes, there is value IMHO.
Can you hear me screaming at you from miles away, or should I try harder? :)
As for the whole faux faces thing, first of all I'd rather see some proof that the quality of autogenerated "missing" faces is good enough. I know that Behdad means well, but I can't recall a single typeface that wouldn't need tweaking after applying weight/skew adjustment in FontForge.
It's too easy to gain a reputation of a toy application.
Taking a close look at the faux bold faces... the quality is really pretty poor. I can also imagine that there could be licensing issues for non-free fonts. What designer wants to see their work perverted?
Tav