<div dir="ltr"><div><div>One more Thomas, sorry to be a pain in the ass, but....<br><br></div>You say:<br>"I should be clear that when I say “quality” I am not talking about
matters of mere taste. There are objective aspects of font quality. For
example, in spacing a typical sans serif, if the cap H and N have
straight sides, and the white space (sidebearings) allocated to the left
and right sides of the cap H are significantly different values, and
those in turn differ from the sidebearings of the cap N, then the font
is simply badly made."<br><br></div>But... on the Extensis WebINK homepage, there is a banner of the Aston Font (aka Photolettering Jeanette), that looks like this <a href="http://cl.ly/image/0B3m2W2Q033K">http://cl.ly/image/0B3m2W2Q033K</a><br>
<div><br></div><div>And since you are mentioning sidebearings, this is how it is supposed to look if properly set:<br><a href="http://cl.ly/image/132N3H1C2w3L">http://cl.ly/image/132N3H1C2w3L</a><br></div><div>(This is the Photollettering GonzalesJeanette 1993 digital version)<br>
</div><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/10/13 Pablo Impallari <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:impallari@gmail.com" target="_blank">impallari@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Nice article Thomas!<br><span lang="en"><span>I would have</span> <span>loved to be</span> <span>in Amsterdam</span> <span>this year</span><span> :)<br>
<br></span></span></div><span lang="en"><span>By the way, regarding this paragraph:<br></span></span><span lang="en"><span>"One of my perennial arguments with the folks at Google is about the fact
that they didn’t have a very high quality bar at all, and let in an
awful lot of fonts that I would say are simply crap or at least
substandard, at an objective level. Some of the folks on the Google side
of the fence say that they are simply giving their users free choice
and that if one of the fonts I consider to be junk becomes popular, then
that’s evidence that it was actually “good.” I don’t have much patience
for this line of argument. I think that Google is abandoning what it
ought to see as a responsibility to be a gatekeeper not of taste, but of
quality, given that it is not hard to find the expertise to deal with
these things."<br><br></span></span></div><span lang="en"><span>There is not much difference to the MyFonts approach:<br>"We review the fonts for technical requirements, but we don’t make any value judgment as to whether we think a design is great or lousy. That’s for our customers to decide"<br>
John Collins, vice president of MyFonts<br><a href="http://www.monotype.com/blog/myfonts-website-democratizes-type-design/" target="_blank">http://www.monotype.com/blog/myfonts-website-democratizes-type-design/</a><br><br>
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<div><span lang="en"><span>I may ask: What are the technical requirements of </span></span><span lang="en"><span><span lang="en"><span>MyFonts</span></span>?<br>
Pretty much everything gets published... just look at the "Intellecta" fonts<br></span></span></div><div><span lang="en"><span>At least Google send everything to iKern first.<br>
<br></span></span></div><div><span lang="en"><span>Also, the people on Pilo is always fixing technical issues on shared </span></span><span lang="en"><span><span lang="en"><span></span></span><span lang="en"><span><span lang="en"><span>MyFonts</span></span></span></span> fonts, like cropped glyphs due to bad metrics; naming issues; etc...<br>
</span></span><span lang="en"><span>Dave is always checking all this on Google fonts. Not only metrics, but also all the other metadata.<br>Hey! he even corrects the spelling mistakes on the descriptions.<br>
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<br></span></span></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/10/13 Thomas Phinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">FYI, I did a small update to the article, expanding a bit on my thoughts on quality....</div>
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</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<a href="http://www.thomasphinney.com/2013/10/free-fonts-revealed-and-reviled/" target="_blank">http://www.thomasphinney.com/2013/10/free-fonts-revealed-and-reviled/</a></blockquote></div><span><font color="#888888"><br>
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