Re: Feta font modifications by Janek

[Alexander Kobel]

On 09/06/2013 06:54 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > Alas, I found one:
> > >    http://www.fontfabrik.com/lucfuse.html
> > > "FUSE 11 has pornography as theme. My contribution to this issue is
> > > a MultipleMaster font. [...] Five characters are converted to small
> > > FREE PORNO MOVIES.  New versions use antialiasing and gif
> > > compression."
> >
> > Actually, this is one of the most brilliant uses of this
> > technology :-)  I would have never dreamt of such a usage.
>
> Uh, you have seen what happened to the Internet?  The 98% of the
> Internet traffic not wiretapped by the NSA is porn.  And some of the
> remaining 2% as well.

That gives an entirely new meaning to "typophile"... ;-)

> > Too bad that you can't download this font somewhere...
>
> Didn't Alexander name this as the only free MM font he was able to find?

Sounds like "free" just means "it's not sold for money" here. I could 
not find a download link either, and even if I had one I'm not sure how 
to use a MM font.

But it's not the only one: English wikipedia on Multiple Master fonts 
mentions 8 free ones, which probably is a massive understatement: One of 
the developers (Graham Maede) lists a ninth one (ChizzMM) on his website 
(again, I couldn't find links for any of them). On 
<http://apostrophiclab.pedroreina.net/>, you can actually download a few 
of them. Some more or less random site 
<http://www.slade.de/dmt/types/formate/multiplemaster.html> (in German) 
claims that roughly 50 MM fonts exist in the wild, including commercial 
ones.
And I'm not all that surprised, when I imagine the amount of sweat and 
tears that has to go into a MM font to look nice in at least /some/ 
choice of parameters.


Best,
Alexander