The Market for Expensive Cheese Graters
As you may have guessed from the title of this post, at least if you've seen the news from the WWDC, its topic isn't culinary.I don't want anyone to feel pressured to disclose personal information that...
View ArticleGood type places to visit in Italy and Morocco?
Hi everyone,I'm going to many cities in Italy and Morocco next year for 1 month,Can anyone recommend: museums, libraries, ruins, type foundries, etc...?I'm very much interested in type, print history,...
View ArticleThe 'wght' axis only operates up to 400?
I am building a variable font (with FontLab) for the first time and testing it in Firefox and Chrome. In both browsers, the weight axis (whose range I set to 100—900) only operates from 100 to 400...
View ArticleOverlap in variable fonts
Should I remove overlap and perform other ordinary clean up operations before exporting a variable font? It seems a sane thing to do, however FontLab doesn't do it automatically on export despite the...
View ArticleExciting News for Mongolian Script Type Design (Hopefully…)
I have followed Mongolian Script Unicode support for some time, and needless to say it has had a rough road but made some great steps forward in recent years. Most recently, I have been reading through...
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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...
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VTT seems to not be working on my machine, am I unable?
Hi, I have been trying to get VTT running on my machine Win7. Am I doing something wrong? I have been following the only tutorial I have found "hinting indic fonts ", I set everything as mentioned but...
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Question about correct contours
Can someone tell me which one is a correct Typographical contour and why?Thank you .
View ArticleSome notes on the GASP table / New on Fontblog
have written up some information on the GASP table. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/fontblog/2018/05/09/the-gasp-table/
View ArticleTcomma and Tcedilla
I'm a little confused about /Tcomma and /Tcedilla According to Adobe Latin 3: http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/latin_charsets/Adobe_Latin_3.html UnicodeCharacterNameDescription 0162Ţ...
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...
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web app or other solution for coloured script
I've a client who is trying to find a way to implement the lettering style below in a way that can be typed.My thoughts are that a custom script font that has a single stroke could be embedded in a web...
View ArticleLigatures for Cyrillic
Someone on the High-Logic forums is asking how to create ligatures for Cyrillic. This can be done easily enough, though it is not automated yet. In FontCreator one can generate the common Alphabetic...
View ArticleCan stolen fonts be found on the web based on Bezier data of their outlines?
A non-designer asked me this question while trying to figure out what my job was.
View ArticleHistorical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th...
As most of those I am acquainted with probably know, athough I never stopped being involved and passionate about it, de facto I have been away from actual typeface design for some years. Now I have...
View ArticleNumbers in a font name ?
Hi, I asked me if i could put numbers inside a font name. For example I would name my latest font " Village 1903 " remembering the year Goudy designed his Village first version.Thanks for any reply,ivan
View ArticleTime to Leave Creative Market - Default Font License Now Grants Unlimited...
Well it's been fun Creative Market but any requests for sanity have now fallen on deaf ears as this organization now hellbent on running the font industry into the ground.Meet the NEW Desktop License...
View ArticleConverting Fonts to Outlines is STILL EULA Enforceable - PSA
Hey All,Lately, I've had a rash of font buyers who believe that as long as the font software file isn't embedded in an App (letter sprites), Videos (online or television) or Product Packaging over 1m...
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MyFonts backlog
Sorry for the personal question, but I have posted a new font on MF for black friday last year and it still has not gotten through. Anybody else experiencing too much backlog? is there EVER a time new...
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