E. Keown <k underscore isoetc at yahoo dot com> wrote: > Supposedly this list has >600 people. > > Just of curiosity, how many of you are NOT font > designers?
Maybe I'm being a bit cynical (the election wasn't that long ago, after all), but I have to wonder what the motivation is for asking this question. This is not inherently a list of font designers, nor is the Unicode Consortium an organization of font vendors. However, there have been charges by critics, such as Steven Searle of the TRON Project, that Unicode is in the "font creation business" (among his many wild and unsubstantiated claims). Certainly there are some font designers on this list, but to ask a list of 600+ members how many are NOT font designers implies that most of them are. You've received nine public responses: one from a genuine font designer, two (or more, depending on interpretation) from people who have designed fonts at some time but don't identify themselves as "font designers," and the remainder from people who definitely aren't font designers. It would be disingenuous to suggest that the other 591+ list members who have not responded must therefore be font designers. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
