OpenType Debugging Hell...
So I just spent many hours trying to figure out why I was getting a fatal error when trying to compile what should have been relatively simple OpenType code in FontLab 5. Usually FontLab at least gives...
View ArticleOTF fonts with PUA glyphs fail on iPhone iOS 11
We are having a problem with iOS 11. Our academic OTF font has glyphs in the PUA E000-E0FF and the PUA-A F000-F01FF. The font previously worked well on iPhone & iPad iOS 10 and earlier, but now...
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Grazhdanskiy Shrift
Grazhdanskiy Shrift is an attempt to revive the font, which altered the structure of the Russian alphabet by the reform of Peter the Great. The project is still in a draft. Any contributions are...
View ArticleThreshold Pen for Glyphs - Project Request
I've been using the Threshold Pen script (http://robofab.com/howto/usepens.html) from Robofab for many years happily via FontLab but my workflow has changed to Glyphs and I'd like to use the exact same...
View ArticleCode points for alternate glyphs
Sorry if this is a bit of a basic question, but I'm wondering what the code point should for alternate glyphs? For example, let's say I have glyph A and I also have glyph A.ss01. What should the...
View ArticleEverything you need to know about typography to get started
Front-end development is a tricky business and it can be a very ungrateful job. A developer that has studied engineering or computer science does this kind of code easily but, by the end of it, there...
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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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Italic Lettered Logotype Critique
Hey friends!Hopefully some of you get a chance to see this and provide feedback as I can see the "Lettering Critique" channel doesn't get used as often. Anyway, I'm in the process of wrapping up this...
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?
View ArticleHow is pencil effect achieved?
https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/hanoded/crayon-en-folie/https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/joebob/caput/https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/my-creative-land/palomino/https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/posterizer-kg/work...
View ArticleBeginner question about unicode
I'm working on my debut font. Just about to finish standard latin glyph. And I'm thinking to expand it to multilingual. The problem is, I don't understand what glyph/unicode to design in order for my...
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...
View ArticlePunchcutter's starter kit: gravers & files
From time to time I am asked about the basic set of gravers and files needed to cut punches so here is a good list. Could be shorter, could be longer but with this set you can do *a lot*. You will also...
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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 ArticleOptions for new type designers?
So, if you were a young type designer, about to release your first face, not sure about the business stuff, what would you do?
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[OTVar] Baseline curvature axis?
This is for the text being placed on a curve.When a glyph is placed on a curve, locally each glyph is placed on a circular arc (in either inside or outside), so we could register its signed curvature...
View ArticleLimited character set text generator
Does anyone know of a text (or pseudo-text) generator where you can limit the character set (to some subset of the Latin alphabet, that is)?(The problem with taking a full character set text and...
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Pseudo-random distress: a redundancy?
If the purpose of display type style is, more so than body text, to signify a certain kind of tonality (such as artistic), then ironically, mimicking an “organic” process defeats that purpose, because...
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DTL OTMaster 5.0 released
A new version of DTL OTMaster (OTM), the highly sophisticated tool for reviewing, editing, and altering tables and glyphs of fonts with a SFNT-file structure, has become available since today. OTM is a...
View ArticlePet peeve: empty .notdef character.
I just spent some time browsing fonts on typekit and was surprised by the number of fonts I came across which had a blank .notdef character. What's worse, a few had blank, zero-width .notdef...
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