Comments on: Metafont http://understandinglimited.com/2006/10/10/metafont/ design & software freedom Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:19:18 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Gustavo Ferreira http://understandinglimited.com/2006/10/10/metafont/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Gustavo Ferreira Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:54:29 +0000 http://understandinglimited.com/2006/10/10/metafont/#comment-7 hi dave, thanks for the reference - Elementar shall be published in 2007. you might remember the parametric type-design tool that my colleague frederik berlaen presented at the robothon conference this year. there is some info about it online now: http://wiki.typemytype.com/wikka.php?wakka=KalliCulator and a demo video: http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=5009072945171875780&hl=nl the nice thing about frederik's KalliCulator is the ability to export the glyphs to the .ufo format, which can be then fine-tuned in fontlab or any other ufo-based tools - simple and powerful. best regards, keep bloggin', - gustavo. ps: ok, now i understand your "secret sauce" metaphor... ;-) hi dave,

thanks for the reference - Elementar shall be published in 2007.

you might remember the parametric type-design tool that my colleague frederik berlaen presented at the robothon conference this year. there is some info about it online now:

http://wiki.typemytype.com/wikka.php?wakka=KalliCulator

and a demo video:

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=5009072945171875780&hl=nl

the nice thing about frederik’s KalliCulator is the ability to export the glyphs to the .ufo format, which can be then fine-tuned in fontlab or any other ufo-based tools - simple and powerful.

best regards, keep bloggin’,
- gustavo.

ps: ok, now i understand your “secret sauce” metaphor… ;-)

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