Typophile tries to infect me
I don't know if someone from here writes there, but every time that I try to open Typophile, my Avast blocks a JS:Miner-Q[Trj]. This only happens on my PC, which might mean my smartphone got infected...
View ArticleWhile working on a typeface, how do you handle all those candidates for the...
Eventually you'll choose one, but in the meantime you've got five or ten or even twenty /a/'s. Where do you put them? How do you make them easily switchable for previewing and testing purposes?
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Are Bézier with only one handle bad ?
Often I hesitate to use Bézier with only one handle in my design. Is that bad or not, and which kind of issues could they generate ?
View ArticleFont Book validation error explanations
Hi, all! Does anyone happen to know how to get in contact with the Font Book developers at Apple? I don’t own a Mac so I have the least reason to ask for support from them. Anyway, I’d really love to...
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[OTVar] Spacing axis
Recently I proposed to Microsoft the registration of a ‘Spacing axis’ in OpenType Font Variations. Tracking and CSS letterspacing are highly primitive mechanisms and they mess up spacing (for instance...
View ArticleHistory of ball terminals in serif typefaces
I'm just curious if there's some background to why ball terminals are used for some characters (e.g. a, c) in some serif typefaces (even blockier slab serifs), instead of serifs for all characters. I...
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Error on overlapping strokes for a script font
Hiya,I recently switched from Fontlab to FontCreator because Fontlab was bugging too much and came across strange overlapping strokes which never happened to me when I was using Fontlab.As you can see,...
View ArticleDocumenting OpenType shaping
Hi everyone,The past few months, I've been working on a set of specification-like documents that describe how OpenType Layout works in practice, specifically for shaping complex scripts. It's not quite...
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Absence of Standard Stem Hints causes fuzzy inline (InDesign, Mac Screen, otf...
Left: no Standard Stem Hints. Right Standard Stem Hints.As this is for a layered typeface, I thought it made sense to remove all hinting (as many of the layer fonts have different dimensions).However,...
View ArticleAccessing Skia's variants
Hi,Do you know if the version of Skia that ships with Mac OS these days is still the original QuickDraw GX? Or is it an updated Variable OpenType? Or none?Do you know of a standard app that can access...
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NSA declassifies Cold War internal office security posters
"During the Cold War, the National Security Agency wasn’t just intercepting Soviet cables and surveilling American activists. It was also creating office art. "They're all here. The In-house designers...
View ArticleWhat does your kerning-process look like when using Glyphs?
Hi everyone! I'm about to dive into the process of kerning using Glyphs for the first time! Earlier I've been doing this in RoboFont and Metrics Machine, but now I want to do it in Glyphs. From what I...
View ArticleHow extreme do you make your light and bold masters
I'm wondering others experience on this:Of course, every typeface can have different needs, but for something like a relatively standard sans serif family with multiple weights, I'm curious how extreme...
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Hinting for layered fonts?
Is it a good idea to hint layered fonts?On the one hand, they will be used together for display purposes, so it’s not really necessary because of the large size, and might even cause strange effects...
View ArticlePeriodcentered
1. Should it be an identical glyph to period? 2. Should it be the same character width as period?3. Should it be centred vertically on the cap height (with suitable “optical” adjustment)?4. Where a...
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Contextually offsetting diacritics
When demonstrating OTM at TYPO Labs 2018 last April, I briefly showed a small experiment with contextually offsetting diacritics that I made last year. Inspired by a Renaissance practice of moving...
View ArticleSome notes on the GASP table / New on Fontblog
have written up some information on the GASP table. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/fontblog/2018/05/09/the-gasp-table/
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Eau de Garamond — a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond
A few years ago, I was first hit by the creative urge to make a faithful sans companion to Garamond — not just another humanist sans tipping its hat to the old master, but a sans that really was...
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Logo Critique for Exam
Hello,For my exam I chose to do a visual identity for a place that sells sandwiches. I've been spending much time on the logo, but now I don't know what I am refining anymore. I need someone else to...
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