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Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Are there any alternative solutions to Wikihiero to create character subdivisions (e.g. 1 glyph below another glyph)? The unicode values are being input using r12a Egyptian hieroglyph character picker,...
View ArticleType.World Font Installation Protocol and GUI App
In anticipation of my upcoming presentation on Robothon 2018 in a couple of days I’m pulling the discussion about the font installation proposal from...
View ArticleFontelier
On the back cover of the new issue of Type magazine, which arrived in my mailbox this week, there's an advertisement for "a new kind of font marketplace" from Morisawa called Fontelier.On the website...
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Why is my font ugly
Hi guys, I'm working on a sans font made to go with a font of mine called Larkspur.It's really ugly and i don't know why. I cant get the shape of the bowls right, especially in bdpq.I know that the...
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Width proportions across weights
Im currently working on a sort of exercise to practise interpolation and I was wondering what everyones thoughts are on how to approach width consistency across weights.For example, the /a and /e in a...
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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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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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Munson, a Victorian style slab serif
I have just finished a slab serif for a graphic design project.I wanted a free Clarendon style font but all the good ones are paid for and it seems like all the free ones were not so good.So I set out...
View ArticleCode points for alternate glyphs
Sorry if this is a bit of a basic question, but I'm wondering what the code point should for alternate glyphs? For example, let's say I have glyph A and I also have glyph A.ss01. What should the...
View ArticlePUA Overcrowding
I am wondering why, with the vast tracts of codepoint space available up in the wilds of Plane 15 and 16, why does everyone (MUFI, SMuFL, ConScript, SIL, etc) want to crowd down into the tiny PUA...
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Naming, grouping conventions for large family
I have a condensed type family with nine weights in each of three widths.I'll be releasing the entire thing as one large variable font and as individual fonts. In addition, it seems to make sense to...
View ArticlesCapHeight and sxHeight Consistency across a Font Family
SIL's Font Development Best Practices recommends consistency of ascender and descender line metrics across fonts in a (R, B, I, BI) family.Should the same hold true for OS/2.sCapHeight and .sxHeight?...
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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 ArticleLooking to Recreate Font
One of my clients had a custom font created for them based on Avenir. They are no longer in contact with the company that created it so they want to recreate it in order to use it on Canva. Currently,...
View ArticleHello Amsterdam type scene!
Hi, I’ll be moving to Amsterdam next month and I’d love to meet other folks who work in type design. I’ll be new to the Amsterdam scene and I’d like to hit the ground running as soon as I arrive. I’m...
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Getting a Basis for Specific Optical sizes
I occurred to me in my font to be designed for specific optical sizes that I was focusing too much on one size, so I’m trying to get a good sense of balance for the other sizes now before getting too...
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...
View ArticleReason not to simplify caretSlopeRise and caretSlopeRun ratio for Italic?...
Among other things, I started to look into the data that goes into making an italic. In trying to find out what the aforementioned values in hhea meant I came across Apple’s manual noting:Note that...
View ArticleChanges To Reactions Redux
In an effort to simplify things, the reactions have been changed. “Like”, “Off Topic”, and “Vote Down” have been removed and “Abuse” has been added. Our hope is that this will streamline things.Posts...
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