Kerning | Entire family [Glyphs]
I want to make kerning to the entire family and I want to create exceptions that make gradual transitions.What is the fastest way to make kerning to a complete family?When I kerning it is applied to...
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You start blogging about fonts and this is what happens
I wonder who they cast for Thomas Phinney?
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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 ArticleType specimen word/phrase generator?
While working on my book, I needed words or phrases that contained the most distinctive glyphs from each typeface while meeting width and language requirements, along with other criteria. Finding these...
View ArticleFamily Naming Robofont
Has anyone transitioned from FontLab to Robofont that previously used Karsten's Font Naming with FontLab and is there some type of translation? I had naming dialed with FontLab, but I'm having trouble...
View Article‘Private Eye’ on de facto closure of St. Bride Library
Here (excerpted) is what Private Eye reports about the planned closure of the St. Bride Library, which, oddly, seems not to have been discussed on this esteemed forum.“The foundation’s library......
View ArticleProportional vs. Tabular Numbers
I am currently debating which (proportional or tabular) style numbers to keep it as default unicode and make the latter as an option.Any recommendation? I noticed some of popular fonts with both has...
View ArticleDiversification Postmortem
Nearly 3 months have passed since the Diversifying TypeDrawers discussion. Despite our desire to include more voices on TD, particularly those of women and other underrepresented groups, very few...
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...
View ArticleThe future of combining marks.
How far away is a future in which precomposed characters built of letters and diacritical marks are no longer in fonts because they’re all composed on the fly with mark-to-base and mark-to-mark? Will...
View ArticleWeb Based Production System
In my private time I am doing an MA and I'm thinking about a certain data model. One of it's advantages could be that it would be possible to make font production easier and less of a headache. I think...
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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...
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Understanding the LeMo cadence grid
I'm trying to apply the cadence grid model from Notes on patterns and grids to help me space a new font; the results are turning out a bit strange so I want to check I understand it properly. Looking...
View ArticleWord "space" unit value in fonts—a formula of sorts?
Just curious... I usually determine the proper 'unit' for a 'word space' in my fonts visually, depending on the font design characteristics. But, I was wondering if anyone uses some sort of formula to...
View ArticleShort notice: Ampersand conference on Friday 13th with 15% off for Typedrawers
I can't believe I didn't mention it here earlier, but Ampersand, the typography conference I run, is happening next Friday 13th November in Brighton, UK.The conference features familiar some faces in...
View ArticleOTMaster: Can I dump all features and replace them with a feature file?
Can I dump all features in a font and replace them with a feature file? From reading the manual I think not, but this seems like an obvious use of OTM, so I’m asking.
View ArticleThis week in type: Pixelated System font, rejecting a manuscript over type...
Medium.com discovers that a “system” font is actually a pixel font called System. “And suddenly I realized I know this font. It was a font I saw on my first PC. It was 1990. That PC was running Windows...
View ArticleAre you planning to include Emoji as part of the character set in your future...
I was recently asked on Quora, and I couldn't think of any examples beyond the existing system fonts dedicated to Emoji, so I’m asking you.
View ArticleOpenType Feature Format
I was looking closer at an OpenType 'zero' feature for the slashed zero replacement and realized it was written out using each grouping bracketed rather than having each separate grouping designated as...
View ArticleOpenType Salt Feature
Is it just personal preference, and the ability to make some alternate glyphs accessible in Adobe Illustrator as for the reason to include 'Salt' as opposed to just including a series of Stylistic Sets...
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