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Don, 

Terrible to say, but I had forgotten the term casting off. I was also proud to come really close to the actual page count.  

Once you had drawn a couple of paras of 10/12 Bembo and all the heads, table layouts, captions, etc. you knew the face! 

Dominique, 

I read the rant. I have another perspective (though I am no expert). I believe that OpenType is Unicode compliant, and Unicode standardizes character positions, so that every system would use the same position for '�' for example.  

That's what I think is revolutionary, especially for those of us not on PCs, but rather on Macs or other platforms. He also slights the benefits for other languages, but we live in a multi-language world. I think it's fantastic to standardize in a way that allows us to communicate more easily, which OpenType does by supporting Unicode. 

I also feel some compassion for type designers. He suggests  world where we can all easily modify fonts. Whoa. What happens to type designers' work in that case? As a graphic designer, I don't want everyone to easily modify my work. Why should type designers want that? Or to more easily rip it off, if I understand correctly. 

I also want type designers to continue to make a living. With the flood of crappy true type fonts that saturated the market free or for minimal cost over the past decade, it's become much harder for type designers to make a living from their work.  I think the prices we pay for type are more than reasonable for the work that goes into a well-designed face.  

So, there's my rant!