Re: Proposal: Font Use Modelling

Clive Bruton wrote:

>>On Aug 9,  3:23pm, Tiro TypeWorks wrote:

>>> I propose (and I'll let everyone else decide who is best placed to implement
>>> such a proposal) that time should be taken to build a series of models of
>>> current font usage, detailing how fonts are purchased and used by different
>>> market groups, how fonts are likely to be used by such groups in the future,

>Chris Lilley:

>>And by other groups. It is the community who do not currently use fonts
now but
>>wish to in the future that is the growth area.

>Maybe something of what John (Tiro) meant was not picked up, or perhaps I'm
just 
>bringing my viewpoint to it, there is a fundamental difference between people 
>who use type to view documents (currently everyone who can read) and those
that 
>use type to author documents.

>From my perspective I'd like to see that differentiation maintained, fonts for 
>viewing and fonts for authoring should be two different things, and the former 
>should not be able to be converted into the latter. 

Yes, that is indeed part of what I meant, though I didn't put it nearly so
eloquently (or concisely).

John Hudson, Type Director

Tiro TypeWorks
Vancouver, BC
tiro@portal.ca
http://www.portal.ca/~tiro

Received on Monday, 12 August 1996 14:54:28 UTC