[Fwd: Re: the ivory tower and the bazaar]

-------- Message transféré -------- De: Nicolas Mailhot À: Gustavo Ferreira Sujet: Re: the ivory tower and the bazaar Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:11:45 +0200 Le dimanche 20 juillet 2008 à 20:38 -0300, Gustavo Ferreira a écrit : You assume I want original. While original is good it's very low in my priorities. Ivory tower design is very good at producing pretty fonts limited to basic latin that are effectively unuseable in an internationalized world. Well, I don't care about this kind of pureblood. I'll take a good unexhalted workhorse over it any day (and that's a generalisation, not every ivory tower font is so limited but most of them are). Give me gcc's, not proprietary compilers that look great in benchmarks but can only do what their original authors cared about. Pretending fonts can not be produced collectively is pure ubris. Their art is not more elevated than Renaissance paintings where offloading a large part of the work to apprentices was common. It's not more elevated than all the cathedrals that were produced by large teams over several lifetimes. And local designers are better at designing their glyphs than someone in an ivory tower the other side of the world anyway. And yes open collective design is not there yet. But it's progressing and I've no doubt he'll suprise a lot of people in a few years. -- Nicolas Mailhot