First font published on MyFonts "Go Braille"
HelloFYI, my first font has been accepted by MyFonts and published. Thanks for your advices and feedback, I confirm that the submission took "some time" as it took approx. 5 month to get an answer and...
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Experience or feedback with submtting a font to myfonts ?
HelloI've submitted a braille font to myfonts.com (23th sept) and did not receive any feedback. I guess that my work is maybe not inline with their quality expectations or that the market for braille...
View ArticleSuperior numbers not working
Please, is there kind enough to tell me why in this font superiors letters work,but superior number not? I mean the .sups number coming from .tnum.Is there wrong in the relative lookup subtable?There...
View ArticleIssue with importing SVG Glyphs from Inkscape to FontForge
Hi AllI wish I could buy a FontLab licence later on but ATM, I try to learn and progress with Inkscape and FontForge. When I import SVG glyphs created with Inkscape they have a very bad aspect in...
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Elstob: a Fell-based font
First a bit about me: I’m a professor of English medieval literature, fascinated since the 1980s by all things to do with type and lettering—both because paleography is a significant part of what I do...
View ArticleNews from the former head of Adobe Type
Hi everybody. I think I know most of you here, some of you are good friends, and the rest I hope soon will be. To the rest, it is very nice to meet you. I'm Matthew Rechs, the former head of Adobe...
View ArticleThe middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up...
In doing some research I was reading through the historical brief of HTF Didot. About halfway down the page there are a couple of captions that talk about a spur placed midway the left side of...
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,...
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Font copyright law changes coming to U.S.
The USPTO is in the process of changing the the copyright protection of font software in the U.S.Time to contact your senators and congress people.Attached is a form letter for your use and a pdf of...
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A big THANK YOU to the folks at FontLab
For those who haven't noticed, FontLab released an upgraded version of FontLab 5 Studio today which addresses the various MacOS incompatibilities which I’ve been incessantly complaining about.
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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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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 ArticleCross platform naming convention
What is the best up-to-date naming practice – if you want cross platform functionality, one big family, without style linking (which nowadays is obsolete anyway, right?) Thank you.
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 ArticleSuperior and ordinal numbers
Should there be a difference between the glyphs of superior numbers and ordinal ones? In some fonts I see that they are set in different lookups, but the glyphs are exactly the same (better: the same...
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De Casteljau
Recently I asked Lukas Schneider (https://www.revolvertype.com/) whether he would be interested to script a small tool in Python that (live) visualizes the construction of cubic Bézier curves in one’s...
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Overboiled flags
At the risk of being severely flagged, I would like to point (again) at this page of https://www.fontmaster.nl, which includes some nice additional testimonials now. If any satisfied OTM user from this...
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What are these coloured lines called, and what is their purpose?
Of late I’m seeing these coloured lines being used quite a bit on websites, usually under a main headline, and above the succeeding paragraph. While they look nice, and add to the aesthetics, do they...
View ArticleDisplaying non Unicode character on website
Hello,I recently run into problem of displaying non Unicode character on an website.The character is an custom symbol, that has no Unicode value.Website is done in Wordpress.Does anyone know maybe how...
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