[OpenFontLibrary] [GFD] Thomas Phinney and Libre Fonts plus Font Quality continued

[vernon adams]

Rich, your directness makes me laugh :D

There’s something of The Onion about all this;  “Local man thoroughly unimpressed by 30–40% of commercial fonts”. Didn’t they once run a story “Local man shuns restaurant because of bad kerning in menu”?

also, talking of keeping objective, which is the lesser font quality; a font that ‘sucks’? or a font that ‘stinks’? 

-v


On 29 Oct 2013, at 09:04, rfink0553 at gmail.com wrote:

> If you think for one second that the following statement from your article has anything to do with "font quality" or possesses any objectivity, or is helpful to anyone in any way, you are fooling yourself:
> 
> "I am pretty harsh about font quality. Most of the fonts I have made have never shipped, because my conceptions of quality early on outstripped my ability to execute at that quality level. So I will be the first to say that there are plenty of commercial fonts that suck. Easily 30–40% of commercial fonts leave me thoroughly unimpressed. If you look at libre fonts, and use the Google Fonts collection as your baseline, maybe 65% of those fonts suck. If you just look at all free fonts on dafont, maybe 95% of those fonts stink."
> 
> Bet the statement above got a big round of applause at ATYPI!
> 
> You can say it ain't so over and over again till you are blue in the face but this is about "my shit doesn't stink but yours does".