Table of the Evolution of English Language
How to display the evolution of language using Unicode?Oxford University Press is publishing a table with the evolution of the English alphabet, in the Oxford Companion to the English Language. The...
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Cherokee!
Expanded my Combax further. I wanna hear your thoughts while I wait for a response from the Cherokee Nation. E-mailed them the below images earlier today PS. I took what I could from As far as I...
View ArticleDiacritical marks fly away
Hello everyone,could you please help me? I’ve designed a font, and when it was used on a website, I found out that some of diacritical marks are far away from where they’re supposed to be. So it looks...
View ArticlePlex; IBM's new font identity model
Saw this news item.It is not particularly new that a company has commissioned a new font for its own exclusive use in order to enhance its own corporate identity.But while this may not be a first,...
View Articlefonts.black
I saw on instagram this strange (corrupt, maybe) websitehttps://www.instagram.com/fonts.blackI have already informed myfonts
View ArticlePressing Punches
I am looking for information on using an arbor press to press the punch into the matrix as opposed to hammering it. How many tons of pressure are required, and does it change for point size? Any...
View ArticleNeue Haas Grotesk's pricing
When Neue Haas Grotesk was published a few years ago, it was presented as a joint project of Linotype and Font Bureau, distributed by both foundries. As far as I understand, Linotype's version and Font...
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Would you like to own a typographer's mould?
Dear colleagues,In the coming months there will be a number of typographer's moulds produced in the Netherlands similar to the one in the picture. They will be working devices able to cast metal...
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‘Grand Cru Classés’ sprouting from Antwerp soil
In the exquisite setting of the Museum Plantin-Moretus the Inside/Outside exhibition, organized by the Plantin Institute of Typography, was opened on Saturday 17 May 2014. The exhibition comprises work...
View ArticleAlternate glyphs and OpenType
What’s the proper way to set up Latin initial and final forms in Opentype? Should I just use LIGA to replace glyphs that are adjacent to space?
View ArticleOrganization
Hey Gang! This may be an odd question but is something I think about from time to time. Does anybody have an organization system they use or love to manage all the different fonts/images/etc that all...
View ArticlePUA encoding and pro users
Has anybody received complaints from professional users about fonts with PUA encoded glyphs causing problems when switching fonts?
View ArticleWeapon of choice
Hi everyoneI would like to know what do you use to design type on your computer?Do you you use a regular mouse or any other, like a gamer mouse?Do you prefer to use a tablet and a pen?Let me know!I'm...
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Sample text when installing font file on Mac
Quick question: I see that some font files show a custom preview text (instead of the regular A-Z, a-z and 0-9) when you open and install them using FontBook on Mac (see attached image for example)....
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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Designing Phonetic Characters
As someone whose background is in linguistics rather than type design and who has thus read lots of material containing phonetic characters, you’d think I’d have better intuitions on this topic but I...
View ArticleClassifying Cambria
So, for those who are used to an Oldstyle - Transitional - Modern spectrum for serifed typefaces, with Slab on the side....How do you classify Cambria? The stress is vertical, or so close as to be...
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C. M. T. (suite)
Hello TypeDrawers,Here's an update to the C. M. T. typeface, that I already posted here a while ago.Following advice from members of this forum, I've condensed certain letters (e. g.: A, R) in order to...
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Upper store of the lc a
Hi beautiful people, since some time I have begun to notice that the two-story form of /a in some fonts has a hook that is, too my eye, imbalanced compared to the counter. I see it pushed to the left...
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New Unger book: Theory of Type Design
I am very excited!Pre-order here, https://www.nai010.com/en/publicaties/theory-of-type-design/186086If you don't know him, he is one of the top type designers of the last decades, and that page links...
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