Any glaring problems with this Cyrillic character set?
I've been working on this sans text face for a while now and have recently added a Cyrillic character set to the existing Latin and Greek sets. I realise there is always room for improvement, but I've...
View ArticleMonospace font attributes
Monospace fonts should have a few attributes in accord to ensure they are treated as monospace fonts. Are theall glyphs have the same advanceWidthpost table isFixedPitch is 1panose bProportion is 9Any...
View ArticleDevanagari workflow: building full forms from half forms
From a speculative standpoint it seems sensible to build Devanagari full forms with a right-side vertical stroke from a half form and the long a matra. Does this work in practice, or will problems come...
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How does Illustrator calculate text frame height
Adobe Illustrator obviously ignores any metrics values stored in the font to calculate the height of a text frame (point type). It rather uses the bounding box. But that is not the full story....
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Aidar (working title)
Hi everyone. This is my first post here, and also my first sans serif font, so would like to introduce myself. I'm from Ukraine. My native language is Ukrainian. I'm relatively new to typeface design...
View ArticleATypI 2015 São Paulo, Brazil
The ATypI conference will be heading to the Southern Hemisphere for the first time!http://www.atypi.org/conferences/sao-paulo-2015Who is coming?
View ArticleTeaching type design online.
FontArk is looking for type design teachers, to teach all levels of type design to small-medium groups of designers - Online!Fontark is a fresh and sophisticated browser-based type design platform,...
View ArticleMy first typeface (a student project), would like some advice
It's not a matter of extreme importance, but since this is my first experience in type design, I would like to get some advice regarding letterforms and their mutual cohesiveness, just to have in mind...
View ArticlePlease suggest typefaces for my talk on contextual alternates
I will be speaking at TypeCon: “Adventures in Contextuality”.This started out as an article for I Love Typography.I’ll be covering the history of <calt> and including typefaces that make...
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Hermann Zapf (8 November 1918 – 4 June 2015)
The great calligraphy and type design master Hermann Zapf passed away yesterday, on 4 June 2015, at the age of 96. Hermann has been a defining force behind type design and typography in the 20th...
View ArticleRamifications of useExtension
Who knows which system/app/rendering environments do not recognize 32-bit Extension Pos lookup types?Specifically, I’m trying to ascertain in which circumstances a font that uses extended {kern}...
View ArticleTypeCon Denver Hotel Share?
I have booked a room at the conference hotel and am looking for a roommate to share expenses.
View ArticleHow to make a dynamic/responsive typeface?
Hi, it is my first post, so if I chose the wrong category, sorry. Anyway, recently I get my design degree and with it the insecure of what pursuit. I had work experience in web development, UX and...
View ArticleATypI OpenType 2.0 session
Just a reminder that later this year there will be an opportunity to discuss and promote your ideas around the "next font format" in São Paulo as part of ATypI's tech day - the whole afternoon will be...
View ArticleOSX Yosemite issues anyone?
I am trying to gather reactions to operational functionality issues (not critiques of UI or UI Type selection) in Apples newest OS revision. I am particularly interested in type design software...
View ArticleTypeDrawers Member Appreciation
From time to time the management will identify those TypeDrawers members who consistently add relevant insight and interest to a variety of discussions on the site. There are no awards to hand out,...
View ArticleGlyphsApp, Prepolator, & Superpolator vs. Just Plain GlyphsApp
A question for my fellow Glyphs users: if you supplement Glyphs with Prepolator and Superpolator, how come? What do they do for you that Glyphs's own tools can't?
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Technical Trivial Facts (.ttf)
In 1964 someone found out that it was possible to directly draw on the IBM 2250 Graphics Display Unit with a morsel of removable chalk mounted on the end of a piece of wood, which was secured to a...
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"Lineal" Neo-grotesque
Hey folks,I just registered to the message board,I am selftaught and have been designing type for about 5 years, recently started a new project "lineal"obviously nothing shockingly new here, but i do...
View ArticleThe Next Font Format?
Does anyone here have ideas for what they wish was in OpenType that isn't?I started a wiki page collecting ideas:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Global_Font_Format_Requirements
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