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Fonts are not like photos, they have hinting and kerning and conditional code that distinguishes a high quality font from crap. The glyph substitution table in
by zuminator 8y ago
Fonts are not like photos, they have hinting and kerning and conditional code that distinguishes a high quality font from crap. The glyph substitution table in OpenType fonts is of such complexity that it's been shown to be Turing complete. [https://litherum.blogspot.com/2019/03/addition-font.html https://litherum.blogspot.com/2019/03/addition-font.html]
- NullPrefix 8y agoDid you just called monospaced fonts crap?
- erik_seaberg 8y agoNot sure about kerning, but monospace fonts do have hinting so that rasterizing any size still works without big aliasing and weight problems.
- ovao 8y agoI wasn’t arguing that fonts are more or less complex than photos, but that from the perspective of implementation and/or copyright, fonts are more like photos (which are implicitly under copyright in the U.S.) than the subject of a photo (like, say, a pasture, a person or a horse). In other words, a font is the specific representation of the concept, idea and qualities that define a typeface, as a photo is a representation of the qualities of its subject.