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Ornamental Initials
Hello,I have been drawing ornaments for years and decided to make a font similar to my previous project Floralis, but this time based on a personal face and not an existing font (and more mature I...
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How short can ascenders go?
This is something I've thought about for a while. I'm new to type design, so naturally I've had to figure a few things out through trial and error, including proper ascender height. I know,...
View ArticleCan tabular numbers be a default set?
I know they can technically, but can they practically? As in – is it frowned upon?
View ArticleCargo Cult Coding?
I noticed that many Adobe Std fonts include localized code for Turkish. For example, we find the following 'liga' feature in Optima Std Roman (as interpreted by FL5):feature liga { # Standard Ligatures...
View ArticleBest way to create ink traps in Glyphs app?
I can't find an overview/tutorial on the subject, or any relevant plugins/scripts. Am I missing something? Are there dedicated separate applets for inktraps?
View ArticleGPOS: How many different anchors are necessary?
Some common fonts are equipped with countless anchors, up to 30 per glyph. Seems like every combining mark is positioned manually. While that certainly makes sense for high-end or general-purpose text...
View ArticleNegative advance
I have observed many times that a variable font would produce negative advance (very frequent in Amstelvar), and in browsers like Chrome it wraps around to +VERY_BIG.Per some discussion with...
View ArticleBearing and kerning
I have some uncertainties about the relationship between bearing and kerning. I'm working on the Italic of a font where, to express myself in a very practical way, I created in a subtable a "right"...
View ArticleHow does Adobe's automatic Optical kerning work?
Whether you like it or not, it's still pretty impressive for a built-in function.
View ArticleWhat are some inexpensive methods for font marketing?
I am an amateur type designer, and have just published a font. I’m not doing this full-time, so it’s more of a side-gig. Now, what are some simple methods of promoting the font online? I don’t have a...
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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...
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text serif a, u, d
Does anyone have strong opinions on whether the bottom right serif on /d/ and /u/ should or shouldn't match the one on /a/ ?
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variable font layout variation
Hi TypeDrawers,please,I have had some interpolating exceptions in my fontas you can see in the videoThat was fine for OTF production.Now I would like to make a variable font of it, which means to fill...
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Rounding Issue
Hi everyoneI have a rounding issue here that some of you may have run across previously.I have overlapping glyphs in a contextual substitution. In some weights, the points of the connection round off...
View Articlebar and broken bar
My understanding is that bar and broken bar are remnants from the pre-digital era, when they were used to compose vertical lines, as also explained here:...
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Greek stress angle in art nouveau typeface
I've been wrestling with a design problem for the Greek lowercase in this late-19th-century style art nouveau typeface, Cristoforo. The upright has been long done, and the italic is pretty nearly...
View ArticleWhich extended Latin characters never occur at the beginning of a word?
The ones like Eszett. Excluding rare orthographical cases like accented letters that are only found in dictionaries.I am aware a text can be all-caps.This is relevant to a font of mine made up from...
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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 ArticleSort of ‘animation’ table in OTVar
I was just wondering whether it would be possible to implement a sort of ‘animation’ table in variable fonts, which would contain a sequence of settings for the axes –in some way connected with an...
View Article[Q] [Beginner] About measures
Greetings, everyone.As I'm relatively new in the typography world, i'm in need of help to understand some basic concepts about measures and, i guess, the methods some softwares use to display...
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