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This stuff is interesting, but the pessimist in me suspects research like this is mostly useful to companies like Facebook and Google who are looking for more w
by criddell 4y ago
This stuff is interesting, but the pessimist in me suspects research like this is mostly useful to companies like Facebook and Google who are looking for more ways to manipulate users.
- ilamont 4y agoIt's also a way for Monotype, a near monopoly, to build interest in its overpriced font packages and speed its consolidation of the industry. H&Co was a bastion of independent type design, a practice that was as innovative as it was profitable amid competition from giants like Monotype and Adobe Fonts, as well as the proliferation of free typefaces on Google Fonts. To see H&Co gobbled up by Monotype was a great blow felt by solo practitioners and small studios, who worry that a profit-driven corporation is increasingly dictating the terms and conditions of how their work is priced and distributed. https://qz.com/2068310/what-monotypes-purchase-of-hoeflerco-means-to-font-designers https://qz.com/2068310/what-monotypes-purchase-of-hoeflerco-...