Geranium : inspired from Venetians
Hi,This is my first post here. I am not professional typedrawer nor I have the ambition to become that. I did my career in horticulture and botany, with the rose and its history and botany as a...
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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 ArticleOut of print books
Hello type designers, show me a sign though – I was book hunting trying to find: The stroke: theory of writing Gerrit Noordzij Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces...
View Article"Helvetica Now" - "Monotype redesigns Helvetica for the digital age"
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/helvetica-now
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Well, while we've been talking about Helvetica Now....
...the Royal Melbourne Institute for Technology (Australia's MIT or Caltech, for those not in the know) has released Sans Forgetica, a font "scientifically designed to help you remember your study...
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1990 Was the Year: PMN Caecilia, ITC Officina Serif
Back on Typophile, quite a while back I started a thread to the effect that many type designs these days seemed to belong to a particular novel kind of slab-serif.It might be monoline, or slightly...
View ArticleMeaning of head.flags.LSBearing
I can't figure out whether the LSBearing bit (bit 1) of head.flags controls the horizontal metrics, or is simply an "efficiency" bit that represents all the LSB values in the 'htmx' table. Does:(A)...
View Articlet y p o g r a p h i c w o r k
I'm looking for a creative/experimental typographer that is interested in spacing.The job is not related to the development of typefaces, it is a graphic design job ideal for a person with knowledge of...
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Montecatini Pro Mini-Site
Hey y’all!Last Tuesday we (Louise Fili Ltd) launched Montecatini Pro. To help promote the font and better showcase all of its features, we built a mini-site. If your browser supports variable fonts,...
View ArticleATF Typesetter Question
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but still, some people here may know the answer.I have been reading up on the history of photocomposition. I was wondering if the terms "first...
View ArticleSeeking Font Engineer in Silicon Valley, CA!
Job Title: Font Engineer Hours: Full-time Duration: 12 months (3 month increments per budget approval) Job Description:For this assignment, Aquent's client is looking for a highly motivated and...
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 ArticleDyslexie font - activism
There's a title using the Dyslexie font in manuscript – this will be published by Oxford University Press. Can I apply passive activism here… or is that too disruptive? The font license could be...
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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...
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Anachrony: sets and swashes
Anachrony is a geometric sans take on blackletter in the "Old English" vein. I've been working on this for a very long while without seeking much input, and I'm satisfied with most of it, but recently...
View ArticlePython-Fontlab specific instruction?
I want to improve my Python-Fontlab scripting skills. Is there any resource, book, tutorials, etc for this. I have taken online Python classes, delved through Python books, but I'm looking for FL or...
View ArticleUser-installed Fonts Coming to iOS 13
According to 9-to-5 Mac:Font management is getting a major upgrade on iOS 13. It will not be necessary to install a profile to get new fonts into the system anymore. Instead there will be a new font...
View ArticleColophon Foundry is looking to recruit a GRAPHIC DESIGNER
https://www.colophon-foundry.org/information/jobs/
View ArticleSetting BlueValues suggested by FontLab
In order to identify the BlueValues etc, I read that the AFDKO stemHist tool is able to identify a series of values to work with. However, I have some difficulties installing it due to...
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