Re: not font designers?

[Mark E. Shoulson]

I'm trying to be a font designer, but I wouldn't say that's my 
profession (nobody's ever paid me for a font, though I'm hoping to 
change that within the next few weeks).  I guess I occasionally design 
fonts, but I'm a computer programmer/researcher/unlicensed brain 
mainly.  I've used and designed text databases, I've done linguistics... 
I'm also a pretty good cook and can fold my tongue into a W.

Labels are just that, and generally as helpful in understanding people 
as the ones on their clothes (I think I'm wearing a Lands' End shirt; 
does that change things?)  Even most type-designers aren't 
type-designers.  There's a lot more to typography and typesetting than 
drawing letters.

~mark
E. Keown wrote:
       Elaine Keown
       Seattle
Hi,
Supposedly this list has >600 people.  

Just of curiosity, how many of you are NOT font
designers?  

And are any of your corpus linguists, text database
people, or maybe database designers?