Licensing for high volume print
I need to sell a license for the use of our fonts in high volume print environments. An example of this would be a print system using IBM's Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS). These systems are...
View ArticleExport old-style non-OpenType "kern" table
In FontLab, under Options/Generating OpenType & TrueType/Kerning there's an option for Export old-style non-OpenType "kern" table. In the past, this was necessary because so few applications...
View ArticleVainilla – Something Old-school
Hello. I’m a recent emigré from Typophile, and I’d like to submit my work for criticism and suggestions. Here is a complete family – Vainilla Avec (“with serif”) and Sans, both in regular and bold...
View ArticleTypeSnitch Project Update
Hello Fellow Font Designers,I have some very exciting news about TypeSnitch that I'm delighted to share with you!Since July of 2012 when I first announced the TypeSnitch effort, I was overwhelmed with...
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A straight version of Abraham: Bram
Around two years ago I released Abraham, a hand-drawn typeface with varying lettershapes (3 alternates for all uppercase and lowercase letters, 'randomly' used so the words look like they are...
View ArticleProject Faces by Adobe
Anyone seen this yet? Adobe let's you 'create' a typeface within your project by adjusting width, stroke width, curvature, crossbar height, contrast, slant and a bunch of other things.See it hereI...
View Article[Question]Leading/line-spacing in Fontlab?
Hello, does anyone know how to adjust leading or line-spacing in fontlab?
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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...
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Free FontLab VI Public Preview for Mac OS X available now! :)
Hello Typedrawers! Yesterday at ATypI Sao Paulo, we premiered the FontLab VI Public Preview for Mac OS X. It’s still a pre-release in-development product, but now you can take a look at it and let us...
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My First Font: SILE Sans
Hello all. I'm very new to type design - I attended the Granshan 2015 conference to give a presentation about the SILE typesetting software and met a load of lovely and interesting people (some of whom...
View ArticleDouble mapping is bad
I know it's considered bad to assign two Unicode values one glyph, but I can't remember why. Someone recently suggested to me that it would be a good idea in the case of all-caps fonts, to double map...
View ArticleCrooked man on a crooked path
For the past few months, I have been working many hours a day on the italic version of a sans I began 10 years ago. To compare, I revisited the upright version just now to find my eyes had gotten so...
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 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...
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Font preview icons in Windows
If you chooose ‘Large Symbols’ in ‘View’ in the Windows Explorer, .otf and .ttf files get a preview thumbnail that shows the letters Abg of the typeface. You will have the same if you go to the Windows...
View ArticleRobofont Autohint Question
For anyone that uses Robofont do you just let it handle Postscript autohinting when generating fonts and leave it at that? The reason I ask is that in FontLab it's typical to run through and check the...
View ArticleFontlab Kern Feature
I'm generating a .otf font from FontLab with a MetricsMachine .fea file I've imported. It works in the OpenType Preview panel as a feature, works fine, all kerning is present but when I generate an...
View ArticleNaming font styles in various languages
I’d like to collect the names of the styles within a family in a few languages, other than English.Globalization is Ok, but having labels in one’s own tongue is Ok, too. Yes, I’m thinking about editing...
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