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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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New Font Streaming Tech: W3C publishes proposal for new Web Fonts Working Group
Personal opinion only:Font streaming, font enrichment, font incremental-loading... So many names for the next generation of web font loading technology...
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Calligraphic Stencil Typeface
Hey everyone!I'm slowly building out a calligraphic stencil typeface for a client – based on a piece of lettering I originally completed for myself. I recently realized it was somewhat influenced by my...
View ArticleOpinions on reverse contrast French Clarendon
A couple of months ago, I watched an old western movie and found myself drawn to the typeface used for one of the newspaper headlines. I was familiar with French Clarendons, but this one struck me as...
View ArticleConsidering new computer: Feedback on MacBook Pros from last couple years.
I'm using an iMac (Late 2013 model, non-retina) right now. 21.5" with 16 GB ram. 2.9 GHz i5. 1 TB Fusion drive.It's been a good computer and overall still works well, but I do lack flexibility to...
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Two potential font projects — which to pursue?
Hi all, I'm toying around with two very different design concepts for my next font project, and I'd like to hear your opinions on them to help me decide. — (1) Working title: Turicum While doodling...
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Codename "Gouda" (1920's pastiche, more or less)
Kind of a mix of Goudy and Dwiggins shapes in the roman in some ways, fairly narrow and spindly. Looks much less so now than it used to, but I can’t think of a better codename. It seems to work well...
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Smallcaps vs. Bold, Slanted/Oblique vs. Italic
How essential is a bold weight? I’m toying with using smallcaps for the “Bold,” with slanted smallcaps for the “Bold Italic” in a face, and wanted to get some opinions. I prefer the consistency of...
View ArticleNeed to edit chinese font file to remove extra space after apostrophe in...
Need to edit chinese font file to remove extra space after apostrophe in FontLab...
View ArticleWhat do you guys think? - General direction
Have been working on this for just a while. I know I'd have to tweak a lot, but for now, I would just like to know your guys' opinions on this general direction. Does it seem like it has "potential"?...
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An Italic for Uccello
Hi ! Here is my attempt to give an Italic to my jensonian Uccello.As I don't like very much Arrighi cursive letters (Cancellaresca) which were used as a companion to Centaur (the original Arrighi's...
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New: DTL OTMaster 7.9
The previous retail version (6.3) of DTL OTMaster was released back in the spring of 2016. A lot of functionality has been added since, especially developed for the internal font production at URW Type...
View ArticleTabular figs in bold+ weights
What do you do when you realize that extra-bold versions of your figures will never fit in the width at which you have set tabular figures in slimmer weights? Is the narrowest width in which you can...
View ArticleFontself as an alternative to ScanFont
I have only vaguely followed the development of Fontself, seeing it mainly as something for dabblers and novice type designers. It lets you make a font directly from Illustrator or Photoshop. I'm only...
View ArticleLetterink on Kickstarter
<evangelist intro> Dear type designers, hear the truth of skeletons. They are revealing from the closets to your favourite type-design software. The world of type design will be no more like...
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...
View ArticleThe Morisawa competition is open.
Morisawa’s semi-annual type design competition is open until 31 January. Note that it is free to enter.
View ArticleVTT Version 6.31 release [Nov, 2018 ]
Download is available hereWhat’s new? Version 6.31 [October, 2018 release] The following are the changes since the 6.30 [August, 2018 release] release of VTT: Introduction of “follow gasp” mode where...
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Komik Ohne: A casual brush-pen blackletter
Here's something I've been doodling with my brush pens for a while now. I'm getting to the point where I like it enough to commit some type work to it to see where it might lead. I'm pretty bad at...
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