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Ergam CJK
I am Learning Mandarin as I design the glyphs in FL6, found a very polite and nice Chinese guy at my home city (and in exchange he's gonna be tought my native language by me ). What I am interested in...
View ArticleDo table figures align across weights and styles?
It seems to me that it is simple logic that all table figures in a family align with each other across weights and styles (because they should all be able to occur and align within the same table), but...
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Farro—a joyful, whimsical display typeface
Hi all! I’ve designed Farro for Grayscale—the company I’m currently working for—as an attempt to replace the current display typeface we’re using, and potentially we want to use Farro for clients’...
View ArticleOTM, FM2, CoMa, LeMo, and… GPMa
In anticipation of new DTL/URW software releases this autumn, an updated version of our font-tools website was launched a couple of days ago. However, developments are going fast and in the meantime we...
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S-shaped question mark?
What's your first thought?ugh/ewwwhmm...whatever.yay!As much as I experienced type around me, and as I could investigate, virtually all typefaces feature question marks pointing down, i.e. towards...
View ArticleRywalka – a condensed sans, explored and extended
Following the thread about the S-shaped question mark, I hereby submit my project to your always helpful critique.I am currently developing two cuts: Narrow and Wide, from which I plan to interpolate...
View ArticleRound vs. Rounded vs. Soft naming
Curious your opinion: I feel I've seen the above mentioned naming conventions for typefaces (speaking about sans serifs) that have a standard, sharp corner version but also have a version with rounded...
View ArticlePlaying around with Venetians
Hi ! After drawing Geranium, which was already inspired by Jenson and Venetians, I am trying to do something around Jenson itself. That was a very old dream, naïve and enthusiast. Here are my first...
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...
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Multiple master issue
Hello everybody,An old file designed with FL5 produce otf that give me a strange error that i don't understand:Can anyone help me to understand what's going on, do i messed up something? How can i fix it?
View ArticleIs only one font can be called a family?
Hi everyone, I'm new here. I design and create fonts at my free time and I would like to know this; is only one font can be called a family? Thanks a lot.
View ArticleStylistic set vs separate font
I'm designing a font combining Latin with insular Gaelic characters as a stylistic set. In your opinions, is this the best way to proceed? Should the Latin and Gaelic be separate fonts or combined as...
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Affinity Publisher OT Support
I recently downloaded the public beta of Affinity Publisher. This is their alternative to InDesign and Quark XPress, and designed to work with their two existing apps, Designer (like Illustrator) and...
View ArticleHints and components in FontLab
Does anybody know: FL5 seems to pick up the hints from the referenced glyph and give it to the component.When autohinting the whole font, the components therefore gets no hints of their own.In FL VI it...
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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 ArticleIdentifont – best practise?
I have received a rather blunt request from Identifont to hand over a bunch of my fonts. I hesitate to do so.Do you supply font files to them? Any experiences, insights, best practise? All...
View ArticleFireFox Support For Variable Fonts (CSS Dev Guide)
Thought this might be useful for anyone involved in developing variable fonts or using them on the web:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Fonts/Variable_Fonts_Guide
View ArticleNoto JP/KR versus Noto
Purely out of curiosity: Does anyone know why the Latin characters in the newly released Korean and Japanese versions of Noto Sans/Serif are different than the Latin/Greek/Cyrillic versions that have...
View ArticleI made a discord server for type design discussions
Here is the link if you wanna join.I made this cause all the info for type design is scattered in so many forums, and would like to have all designers chat in a single place see what comes out of...
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Has someone else done this?
I started doing this but idk if I should continue if someone else has done it.
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