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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...
View ArticleArabic sketching words.
What are some good Arabic words for sketching design ideas? I’m looking for Arabic analogues to adhesion, hangloves, hamburgefonts, etc.
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Savate - A reversed contrast sans
Hi,I've been working for a few months on this typeface. The original inspiration came from an hand-painted lettering that I saw in Paris suburbs, but it has changed a lot since as I redrew it many...
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Untitled serif, student type design
Hello typedrawers,it is my pleasure to introduce myself with my first, and truly humbling, attempt at designing a typeface. In the past I have always been drawn to letter shapes and practiced...
View ArticleLanguage support & character set standards: how do foundries label their...
Clients often ask me what languages are covered by most professional fonts and I still have to tell them that there’s no simple answer. A good foundry clearly illustrates each font’s support, but a...
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PS hinting, below the baseline
I’m having trouble getting this feature to render properly. The inner counter is slightly below the baseline.Is there a good way to handle these cases?
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 ArticleRead This Before Posting A New Critique Thread
Please do the following when requesting a critique: • Attach an image to your post, but keep the image under 700 pixels wide. Use whatever image hosting service you like or just throw the file on your...
View ArticleGlyphs AND Robofont
I am just trying Glyphs rightnow and have to use the older version, because my OS is not compatible with V2. I am just thinking if there are any benefits in combining Glyphs with Robofont? I mean it...
View ArticleFirst typeface with a name?
Does anyone know what was the first typeface to be named, to be identified as something other than e.g. Aldus' second italic, or Caslon's English Body Pica Roman No.1?It makes sense that the practice...
View ArticleOrnaments and Unicode
Does anyone have a good list of unicode values for ornaments, dingbats, piece borders, and other non-type glyphs? The ones I'm Googling all seem pretty thin. Related: what are best practices for...
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Strange rendering of one letter in on-line PDF reader
Hello,My client, an advertising office, designs a magazine for on-line previewing based on PDF. Unfortunately, one single letter of the font is rendered with a strange shape around the letter. Accented...
View ArticleThe typographer who might have been James Bond
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/10/tight-trousers-typography-robert-harling-james-bond-ian-fleming"The novelist Ian Fleming and the typographer Robert Harling became close and...
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OpenType Sanitiser
Hello, this is an issue I have not come across before. When viewing a pdf in Firefox 40, some characters (especially vowels and diacritic marks) in complex non latin scripts are not rendered correctly....
View ArticleHow to edit font's outline and keep OT features (or transfer OT fea between...
I have some fonts (open source but... no sources files just binaries). I plan to make changes to a font's outlines but keep all the features and tables (except the names). What's the most reliable way...
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Paramond — an extreme display serif
As I posted on Typophile, this Monday I had a sudden impulse to doodle an exaggerated light, contrasted, space-taking Garalde with impossibly tiny counters, long extenders and no respect for long...
View ArticleNew Channel 4 Identity
Those of you in the UK will probably have seen this already. What do you think of the Channel 4 rebrand? (http://dblg.co.uk/work/channel-4-rebrand)More specifically the new typefaces by Brody...
View Articledlig feature help
I'm doing this discretionary ligature feature where the substitusion part looks like this so that it works with lowercase, sentence case or uppercase. I wanted to make an OpenType class, but that won't...
View ArticleIntroducing Trufont, World’s First Native UFO3 Font Editor (& fully...
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View ArticleNew version 1.4 of TTFAutohint released
Werner posted about this new release at the tail end of another thread, but I think that's too hidden and that it rates it's own thread.[ Cross posted from the Google Discuss Group:...
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