The Raster Tragedy at Low-Resolution Revisited | Beat Stamm
The Raster Tragedy at Low-Resolution Revisited | Beat Stamm
Thomas “my other car is a sans serif” Phinney on fonts, typography & text. Geeky troubleshooting and info for font developers and users. Consulting & expert witness for fonts & typography. Read more...
Back in the mid to late 90s, Adobe acquired a company called Ares Software. Ares made font-​related software products, including doing the programming (but not owning or distributing) of Letraset FontStudio, which in its day was one of the best font editors. They are best known for a remarkable application and technology called Font Chameleon.
There is a popular myth that Adobe bought Font Chameleon to kill a threatening technology. Actually, no, removing it from the market was not a motivation for the acquisition. The team that made fonts and would have cared one way or another had nothing to do with those decisions, and were simply not interested in Font Chameleon.
The Raster Tragedy at Low-Resolution Revisited | Beat Stamm
The Raster Tragedy at Low-Resolution Revisited | Beat Stamm