so funny that the industry is getting bullied by a proprietary font. they deserve this shit at this point out of the sheer stupidity of locking themselves into a proprietary font company.
They were purchased by Monotype, a global font monopoly, and the whole “buy all competition, send prices into the stratosphere, then sue whoever can’t pay the extortion or change their fonts” is Monotype’s entire M.O. Every country on the planet should be breaking them into a hundred pieces and locking up their executives for the rest of their lives.
It’ll be as cathartic as it’ll be catastrophic. I’m personally looking forward to the devastation this folly will bring, if only to see PC parts makers come back to the consumer market with hat in hand.
It’s sad that there’s not many Japanese font provider, sure there are free font, but outside a few one, it’s not really well supported with updates and bug fixes.
Event Google’s Japanese Noto font requires contant update and bug fixing.
A big font with thousands of characters might occasionally have error on them, that’s why someone have to maintain them and checking for all visibility test. This even true for any CJK languages.
Whenever they add new symbols to Unicode, for a start.
Probably other reasons too, on occasion. For non-Latin languages with thousands of characters, I’d imagine certain unusual combinations occasionally get discovered that need rendering tweaks? Things like that.
There are other Japanese ran and designed font foundries. The US ones have had crazy pricing for a while so I’ve been using maniackers for decades now.
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so funny that the industry is getting bullied by a proprietary font. they deserve this shit at this point out of the sheer stupidity of locking themselves into a proprietary font company.
This Bluesky post sums it up:
They were purchased by Monotype, a global font monopoly, and the whole “buy all competition, send prices into the stratosphere, then sue whoever can’t pay the extortion or change their fonts” is Monotype’s entire M.O. Every country on the planet should be breaking them into a hundred pieces and locking up their executives for the rest of their lives.
Ah yes, The Greatest Hits of Capitalism.
Being purchased by Private Equity is basically a death knell for whatever unfortunate company is in their sights
It would be hilarious to see these companies going balls deep into AI only to suffer massive losses and try to push those losses onto others
if it weren’t so sad.
They always do. Get bailed out by the government using taxpayers money. If it was truly capitalism they would be left to rot by the side of the road.
Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.
Vote for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders!
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When nVidias bet on AI collapses eventually, it will be catastrophic cascade of events, worse than the Great Depression.
I think the nVidia bubble is pretty inconsequential since they don’t actually produce anything which people rely on to live a normal life.
If we do degrade that far it will be because of Republicans reigniting WWII fascism.
It’ll be as cathartic as it’ll be catastrophic. I’m personally looking forward to the devastation this folly will bring, if only to see PC parts makers come back to the consumer market with hat in hand.
Except there won’t be much of a consumer market to come back to, due to the aforementioned economic devastation.
And they want us all in the cloud so they can control and see it all. Can’t do that if you can keep your data on the pc in your basement.
so comic sans
It’s sad that there’s not many Japanese font provider, sure there are free font, but outside a few one, it’s not really well supported with updates and bug fixes.
Event Google’s Japanese Noto font requires contant update and bug fixing.
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time to work on it yourself!💪
頑張れ！🔗♪
Why would a font need updating?
A big font with thousands of characters might occasionally have error on them, that’s why someone have to maintain them and checking for all visibility test. This even true for any CJK languages.
Example of error on Google Japanese Noto font: https://github.com/notofonts/noto-cjk/issues/286
Whenever they add new symbols to Unicode, for a start.
Probably other reasons too, on occasion. For non-Latin languages with thousands of characters, I’d imagine certain unusual combinations occasionally get discovered that need rendering tweaks? Things like that.
There are other Japanese ran and designed font foundries. The US ones have had crazy pricing for a while so I’ve been using maniackers for decades now.