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What the s... – looking for something to hold onto while drawing a stencil 's'.
Hello there, I am new here, let's see how this works. Below, you see a wordmark I am designing for a non-alcoholic home brewery. Things are slowly developing in the direction I am looking for, and...
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Favourite Figures?
Just trying to grow my collection of (in my opinion) the best figures. This subject is subjective because one could argue that a typeface is also representational of it's figures, but I'm looking for...
View ArticleHDR laptop display and beautiful typography
I'm going to buy a new Windows 14" ultrabook: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Generation.https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x/ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-6th-Gen/p/22TP2TXX16GI have to choose...
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Fontlab 5 - - - Need help to launched on OS10.13.3 High Sierra
@Thomas Phinney @Adam Twardoch and other typeface designer colleague. I hope folks you will be able to help me. I had to change my Mac G5 last week (2004 machine). I switch to a iMac High Sierra...
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View ArticleHow would you call the italic equivalent of serifs?
I mean those small swashes at the ends of each "vertical" stem. Do they have a name?
View ArticleI Announced my First Variable Font Today
Hey.I've been dabbling in Type Design for a while, but I've never posted anything here before, so excuse me if this isn't in the spirit of the community.Today I announced my new font, Umbra*, which...
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FontLab VI now shipping
FontLab VI is here! Unleash your type design creativity with FontLab VI, our ultra bold font editor. Design and edit glyphs more easily than ever, draw multi-color fonts, or make variable fonts. Type...
View ArticleVTT v6.0
Hi all –Does anyone have the installer for the previously-distributed version of VTT? It's at 6.2 on the MS site now and that has bugs and, even though I installed it into a separate directory, it...
View ArticleAvoid "stroke"
It's not the first time Hrant has shoehorned his ideas about how we shouldn't be thinking about strokes into other threads. It's an interesting idea so I thought it deserved its own thread.If you want...
View ArticleWhat means – Font Info
Hello everybody,I have come across asking myself what actually font info means.Various type design software adopted this term, but each uses it slightly differently. So what is actually the purpose of...
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Infant type revisited
The matter of Infant type or Infant letterforms has been discussed several times. What I’d like to learn about it now is, in which countries else such a tradition can be detected? It is known practice...
View ArticleOld-style (minuscule) zero in Black weight serif
Hello everybody. I'm designing a contemporary, Elzevier-inspired serif typeface and now I've come to a rather interesting point—old-style figures. Normally you'd expect a stressless zero that's almost...
View ArticleSearch Fail
I used to think it was me, but now I'm sure: the search function doesn't work for more than one word at a time, at least not the way one would expect.For example if I search for "ascenders descenders"...
View ArticlePablo Impallari's type testing site is gone
His account at http://www.impallari.com seems to be suspended.And I now notice that he's not been active for a while on TypeDrawers. Is he okay? Anybody know what's happened?
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Our first steel punches
This is the first punch I've cut. The model was a Tavernier's Ascendonica T that is missing in the matrices kept at the Plantin Moretus Museum (MA 77) but can be found in printing in a number of...
View ArticleGravers and files gone?
I just noticed today that Rod McDonald's film on Vimeo is no longer accessible:http://blog.fonts.com/2016/05/gravers-files/Does anyone know—is it gone for good? Or is this just temporary?
View ArticleGenerating static instances from variable font file
Are there any tools out there that can generate a static version based of an existing variable font (an .otf or .ttf)? Something like this:$ staticize --wgth=150 --abcd=876 varfont.ttfWhere this would...
View ArticleOutsource hinting help
HI all, firstly I wish you guys a great weekend,So, .... I might getting a good type project and I need help to outsource the hinting part of the job,do you guys have any lead, technicians or a company...
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