People's choice voting now open for Morisawa competition
Go check out the entries and vote for your favorites here. (I'd love to see people with a good critical eye for type design like TypeDrawers readers make up a significant share of voters.)
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Fontlab - Variable Axes Parameters ?
Hello,I stuck in designing the variable font. Can you share information that is knowledgeable about it?I have 4 master variable characters, I could not fully analyze the coordinates of the axes.Weight...
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Looking for advice and critique
I been trying to learn type design for about 7 months of practicing and learning from my own mistakes, I haven't finished a whole alphabet, cause I always feel like there are mistakes I don't know the...
View ArticleKerning class definitions
My understanding is that it is considered best practice for OT class-based kerning to define kerning classes for everything (apart from exceptions) that one wants to kern. That includes classes which...
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Glyph Collector
During the first semester of the current school year, KABK-LetterStudio student Gábor Kerekes programmed a small nifty tool in the context of the ‘1001 ways to digitize type’ module, named Glyph...
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Thick Display
Hey all,I'm an industrial designer turned graphic designer, now experimenting with type design. 🙃This a first attempt at a thick, display sans serif (hopefully with some character). So far it's only...
View ArticleDifferences between number sets
What are the differences between the following OpenType number sets?Small Capitals numbers (c2sc) and Denominators (dnom)Numerators (nums) and Superscript (sups)As I understand it, SmallCaps and Denoms...
View ArticleHow do I price a custom font?
Hi all! I'm Tré Seals, and I run a font foundry called Vocal Type Co. I've only been doing this for 2 years, and I just got my first request for a custom font.This client wants a custom version of one...
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Never Mind Starling
I was looking at a digital copy of the 1908 Stephenson Blake specimen book in its Canadian edition.Their Lining Old Style No. 5 looked... rather familiar.Maybe there are aspects in which it is greatly...
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Font Identification Question
Does anyone know the font used for the text "Salon Cent" and "Cycles et Automobiles G. Ribiere"? It appears to be from the a type specimen dating back to 1901 from la Fonderie Typographique. This...
View ArticleSuper- Sub-script glyphs generation
A mystery about superior and inferior.I created the superior and inferior glyphs from a to z. Now, if I compile something with Xe- or Lua-LaTeX like \superscript{abc} everything is fine.But if I write...
View Articlebefore
I was looking through the Fira GO syntax as an example of multiscript lookups and features interacting and noticed that while the tag registry notes that <ccmp> “needs to be implemented prior to...
View ArticleMaster's degree in typeface design - where to go?
Hi all!I'm thinking of doing a master's degree in typeface design.Three questions, please:1. I know of four such programs: Reading, KABK, ESAD and ECAL. Are there other programs?2. What are the pros...
View ArticleThe Joh. Enschedé type-specimen collection
To all type enthousiasts!The North-Holland Archives house the collection of the famous Haarlem based Typefoundry and printer Joh. Enschedé. Within this collection there's a subcollection of over 2000...
View ArticleWhat happened to Fontyou?
Their browser security certificate expired and some links no longer work.
View ArticleInstall fonts from App Store with iOS 13
Per the iOS 13 announcement today, Apple's website states:"Font management. Create beautiful documents that reflect the style and character of your project with custom fonts you can install from the...
View ArticleList of Deprecated Legacy Characters
I could have sworn about a year or so ago when I was looking into /napostrophe out of curiosity I found a list of deprecated characters either on Unicode’s site or a wiki. Not thinking too much of it...
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Bainsley
I have been working on a sans serif typeface, the current working title is 'Bainsley'. It started out as Cadman but I was struggling to get the look I wanted so I lifted a set of Numerals, a to z and...
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 Article.sc and .a glyph types
I've noticed that some fonts have two versions of entire glyph sets.Adobe Garamond Premiere Pro has the small caps (extension: .sc) and an almost equal version (extension: .a, which I believe is for...
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