Fonts in the Wild
Just our of curiosity - after you've released a new font what's the soonest you've seen it on a file sharing website. 12 days for me.
View ArticleExclamation comma
I was wondering. Is there a designated unicode position for exclamation comma and question comma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation#"Question_comma",_"exclamation_comma") ? If not, what...
View ArticleThe 2018 Font Purchasing Habits Survey Results
The 2018 Font Purchasing Habits Survey Results by Mary Catherine PflugHaven't found a discussion on this survey's completion on TypeDrawers and thought I'd share it here in case some of you missed it,...
View ArticleFree sites stealing/pirating your fonts for download
I've already had to send DMCA notices, but what a hassle against sites like UXFree and others, that steal your fonts from distributor sites and make them a "free" download. In one case they removed it...
View ArticlePrinter recommendations for proofing?
What printer would you recommend for proofing purposes, today? $500 or under would be nice since I'm an independent designer. Ideally, the minimum requirements would be: - true 1200 dpi, - Adobe...
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Baguettes ... early days
This is Baguettes (working title).It's the first work I've felt confident enough to show you all. My key question: am I heading the right direction, please?Plenty of books say that you should make sure...
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Type Foundries offering printed specimens
Hi there,As collector of printed type specimens I would like to know which foundries you can mention who are currently offering (ideally offset) printed type specimens.BTW, we have recently published...
View ArticleQuotes for an article
Given our issues with IP theft, I am expanding an article I was originally writing on Font Installers to include font theft as well. Thus, I'm looking for anyone who would like to be quoted in regards...
View ArticleHorace Carr
On the Internet Archive, I came across Bernard Shaw on Modern Typography, reprinted from The Caxton Magazine, by Horace Carr at "The Printing Press" in 1915. It piqued my interest, because it was in a...
View ArticleGrilli Type Foundry seeking a junior type designer (anywhere in the world)
https://twitter.com/grillitype/status/1105157649715396608"Junior Type Designer (3 Months)Grilli Type is seeking a junior-level type designer on a three month contract basis for 4 days a week.You will...
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Moxic
Hello,a generic grotesk going up to 11 (file attached below). Will have italcs. Family name is open for debate.
View Articleblend tool fontlab
in fontlab 5 there was the blend tool for easy interpolation. can't find this in fontlab 6 or FL6-help. how does this work now? i am not familiar with MM or variable fonts. any comments?
View ArticleRobofont or Glyphs for Type design
Hello Everyone, I am new to using a fully functional font editor and was wondering which one would be the best bet to start with. Robofont or Glyphs?
View ArticlePlex; IBM's new font identity model
Saw this news item.It is not particularly new that a company has commissioned a new font for its own exclusive use in order to enhance its own corporate identity.But while this may not be a first,...
View ArticleName table ID's 16 and 17
Does anyone know why MacOs prefers to use the name id's 16 and 17 for the Windows platform over the id's 16 and 17 for Macintosh the platform? Adobe InDesign on Mac also uses the id's for Windows.
View ArticleFont production frustrations and solutions
As someone still becoming familiarized with everything that goes into the production stages of fonts, I'm realizing more and more that there's a lot that goes into turning a *typeface design* into a...
View ArticleUltra-compressed flat-siders
In times of the ancients, sans-serif condensed, compressed, ultra-compressed fonts usually had flat sides. If you look at Univers as it gets narrower, curves get squeezed until they become completely...
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Arabic Design Contest
Dear Friends,You are cordially invited to design one Arabic font to win our tool, namely "QalamBartar" shown at and elaborated at https://ahmedgraf.com/2018/06/12/qalam-bartar/ plus a number of unique...
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Dark stencil
This design is derived from handlettering on a T-shirt I did recently.The objective was to keep the letters fat so that the line design could be drawn inside. I made some trials with the ornaments (a-z...
View ArticleAutomatic spacing/kerning: an attention-based approach (collaborators wanted!)
Hello typophiles,I've been hacking on a new approach to letterfitting and thought perhaps some of you might be interested (seeing as Simon got some good discussion out of his Atokern thread). It's...
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