I was looking at the Adobe Garamond font earlier this moring and found a good supply of ligatures in Roman and Italic and of swash glyphs in the italic.
I don’t mind if you post a link every now and then, but in my opinion this is overkill. I visit over 100’s of font related links every month, but only post here when I really believe it’s useful to other visitors of the forum. Your post looks more like an online favorites storage.
I might be wrong, so I wonder what other visitors of the forum think.
It’s very hard to look at a post without adding to View count. Count does not indicate interest or relevance. View count does not indicate acceptance or rejection. Count comes from clever subject titles. Count comes from site traffic. I read every new post for instance and respond only if necessary for my piece of mind.
A post entitled “Pictures of my Cat named Garamond” would get large view counts but not as many as “Pictures of my Dog named Garamond”.
Long posts should be rewritten – too many details is too many words. Terse writing is a virtue! Verbose writing is a fault but still accumulates View counts. The reader doesn’t need to be lead through every step taken.
In my opinion: stop posting discussions about using the Private User Area, three ligs posts are two too many and I don’t need to see nuanced changes to private fonts…
I am guilty in that I have enjoyed some of the links William has provided and added to his traffic counts, but today’s “Ligatures and swash characters in Adobe Garamond” consisting of 7 links had 5 that were too close together or irrelevant to the question.
That is, “Here’s the Festival book and here’s some sample Garamond” would have been more direct and in my mind enough to pose the question, “Am I right that this is Garamond?”.
Whether that topic is appropriate for a Font Creator Web Site is of course another question.
This may sound harsh because I have appreciated some of William’s (and others) comments but usually if I see a post with a boring title, I just click on the
17 visits due to William
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5 one of the top ten posters
4 Me!
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