Photoshop's CALT button bug
Hi there,I haven't found a mention in this forum about it so I report it. One of my clients recently noticed that in Photoshop CS6, when you select a font with contextual alternates the calt button...
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...
View ArticleBitmap / Raster Fonts for Print
Is it possible to make bitmap/raster fonts with high enough resolution for print? (e.g. 800–1200px high letters)? I wasn't sure how high resolution sbix apple fonts can go.
View ArticleHow to add a glyph, insert a component and mirror it into a variable font...
Hi, please, I need to duplicate all glyphs in a font as mirrored components with fonttools. I have been going around the internet but it's hard to find a place where to start from so I kindly ask here....
View ArticlePostproduction.... where and how to start?
Let's assume I've designed my typeface. It's beautiful. It has lots of weights and widths and italics and accents and Icelandic characters etc etc. Spacing and kerning are perfect. What comes...
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MyFonts pangrams gone?
I remember going to MyFonts and loving all the sample text generation options, OpenType feature exploration tools, etc etc. But I just went there and its all been radically simplified, just raw text...
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Word for Mac style linking behaviour
I've been at war again with Word for Mac for a while now. I don't remember coming across this particular issue before.The issue seems to occur with weights above weightclass 400.Here's the issue:I'm...
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Commission for a logo based on a Cormorant glyph
So somebody contacted me about using a glyph from Cormorant (the rapier-shaped alternate /daggerdbl/) for an album cover, which is certainly no problem, and about possibly commissioning an adaptation...
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Overbold: Ignoring Eric Gill's Advice
So this illustration from Eric Gill's Essay on Typography recently showed up on my Twitter stream. In it, Gill shows that there is a limit to the boldness of classical serif typeface, since making the...
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A solution for Windows Font Viewer 'is not a valid font' error
Hi,I've been hearing about this for more than a year now. Some of the users have been telling me that they had received this error before. But I personally never had a problem, until I did search for...
View ArticleOutlining fonts in a whole InDesign document upon generation
During the weekend I tweeted about it but as I think more people will find this technique useful, I also post it here.I found this technique to outline all text in InDesign documents upon generation....
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Typography Summer School (University of Antwerp)
For those who cannot attend the ATypI Tokyo conference: Typography Summer School at the University of Antwerp from 2 till 6 September 2019. An intensive 5-day program on the value of research for a...
View ArticleSwash Capital I and O
Howdy!I'm working on swash caps for a serif book face. All is going great, I think, but I'm having difficulty coming up with swash variants for the I and the O. I know that they are often simply...
View ArticleMicrosoft VOLT and variable fonts
I would like to know if is possible to do the opentype features for a variable fonts using VOLT?What are the new opentype features?Do I need to wait a new version of VOLT?Any help will be appreciated.TIA
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OpenType GPOS Lookups for Urdu
I am trying to understand the rendering of "بڑ" (Urdu - Unicode 1576, 1681) with a font Jameel_Noori_Nastaleeq.ttf. The string is converted into glyphs [607, 460, 471, 1651] by the GSUB table. I can...
View ArticleJanson Text 56 Italic OsF
Is there a lack of availability of OsF (old-style figure) faces available these days? 99% done on a book layout job, entirely in Janson Text from Linotype, but now must find and purchase the italic...
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MyType.io: Will this service help you?
Hi! This is David Kim in MyType Team! https://mytype.io/ is a font market platform for designers to search fonts much easier. We are utilizing artificial intelligence technology to classify fonts and...
View ArticleFontLab Studio 5 is dead
I know that I’m not the only one who has been sticking with FontLab 5 despite the copy/paste issue that arose on Macs post-Sierra.Just to let everyone know, the macOS 10.14.4 update kills it...
View ArticleRogers (for the Justowriter) Now Visible on the Web
The book Anatomy of a Typeface by Alexander S. Lawson mentioned that Bruce Rogers was hired to adapt his typeface Centaur to the Justowriter.As the Justowriter offered only the same limited...
View Articlesuperior (and inferior) numbers
Is there any "standard" or custom widespread in the setting of superior (and inferior) numbers? The superior numbers are for me more relevant, because they constitute the numbering of the footnotes....
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