Post #1807984
2026-03-08 11:12 UTC
@Bahman I agree they can overlap, but "design" is not a subset of "production", it's more like a venn diagram.
Sketching is part of design, not of production. Exporting a TTF is part of production, not of design.
Deciding what OT features are needed is part of design. Writing them and making sure they work correctly is maybe overlapping design and production.
Kerning is part of design. But making sure your kerning is correctly exported as an OT feature is production. Adding a 'kern' table to support PowerPoint is production.
Making sure the glyph names in the final font conform to technical requirements is production.
Therefore: production names are final names.
Replies (3)
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@frankrolf@typo.social 2026-03-08 11:24
@justvanrossum @Bahman 🎶 It’s the production countdown 🎶
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@paulvanderlaan@typo.social 2026-03-08 12:03
@justvanrossum @Bahman I don’t know. To me this sounds very much argued from the perspective of a single designer using one font editor to create a new typeface from scratch. But nowadays lots of people with different skills are involved in the production phase of a typeface. And that can involve multiple sources from different times by different people using different font editors.
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@simoncozens@typo.social 2026-03-09 08:53
@justvanrossum @Bahman Design/production of fonts is a spiral.