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Do type designers draw fonts by hand with a mouse or a tablet? Or is it more of a mathematical process, plotting out coordinates point by point?

Genuinely confused about this — the internal data of a font isn't something regular users or even other type designers ever actually look at, so why do things like converting to WOFF2 or trimming down internal glyph presets/subsets for optimization count as a violation under the RFN clause? Is there anyone here with expertise in font licensing, or a type designer who's dealt wit...

16 years ago, the first public working draft of Web Open Font Format (WOFF) was published. WOFF is how downloadable fonts on the Web went from “no-one uses it” to “most sites use it”. An article by Chris Lilley.

The new major release of the popular MacOS font editor is now available.