Reviving Type
A book on the calibration of mind and eye, to be presented at ATypI 2019 Tokyo: https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/8890-reviving-type-1
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Electra Oblique
Colophon from Paul Gallico’s The Snow Goose, published in 1944 by Knopf. The entire text of this short book is set in the sloped roman of Electra, to the copiously-leaded specification shown here. (At...
View ArticleA little curiosity about pnum and tnum
Something escapes me on the mechanism adopted by some fonts to manage proportional and tabular numbers.GaramondPremierePro does not seem to present proportional uppercase numbers. It contains the...
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Geometric display typeface for a magazine
Hi! This is a geometric display typeface I'm currently working on. It's intended for bold headlines and is meant to give a "techy" feel, while trying to remain suited for editorial use. Before I go any...
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Muana Grotesque
Hello,I am really young guy, really want to be type designer future. I am just design some monospace and little exprimental grotesque before. The world don't need an another grotesque I know but this...
View ArticleApple SF Fonts on Windows
I downloaded the various SF fonts from the Apple developer site (https://developer.apple.com/fonts/) and installed them on my work computer (Win 10) but I noticed that the italics are not showing up in...
View ArticlePostscript erros in Excel
I'm stumped...has anyone else run into a problem with printing from Excel. I am noticing that when printing the Bold and other styles the file freaks out and the only thing that prints is a bunch of...
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...
View ArticleFontLab Studio 5 is dead
I know that I’m not the only one who has been sticking with FontLab 5 despite the copy/paste issue that arose on Macs post-Sierra.Just to let everyone know, the macOS 10.14.4 update kills it...
View ArticleOptical fonts
About optical fonts. There are some fonts that present more series of glyphs, divided by optical ranges ranges (generally three or four). For example:Caption = {-8.9}Text = {8.9-14.9}Subhead =...
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Ligature Substitution Issues in Windows 10
I am Creating a Ligature Base Quran Font, estimated around 22000 Glyphs. Most of the Art work is done. I am using FontLab and VOLT to create this single Font File.I just use one OTF feature which is...
View Articleccmp and decomposition
I'm wondering if anyone here has designed a font in which accented glyphs are decomposed into base glyphs and combining marks in the ccmp feature.e.g.sub aacute' by a acutecomb;I'm thinking here of,...
View Articleaalt type 3 and
Referring to this tread:https://typedrawers.com/discussion/1319/opentype-aalt-feature I don't understand the two types of lookups that it is possible / convenient (or not?) to carry out.I refer to the...
View ArticleHiding posts from specific users
My TypeDrawers experience would be improved by the ability to hide all posts from specific users. While I can take commonsense measures to avoid seeing these folks' content, I'd prefer to automate the...
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Substitutions with Turkish
As is known, in the Turkish language the i exists as distinct letters in two versions, with and without a dot (with very different pronunciations): the couple <i / İ> and the couple < ı /...
View ArticleFreda Sack Obituary
Obituary of Freda Sack at The Guardian.https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/13/freda-sack-obituaryThis name is not known to me, but it may be of interest.
View ArticleReplacing a glyph with itself + other glyph
This works in Chrome and Edge:<MultipleSubst index="0" Format="1"> <Substitution in="g18" out="g10,g19"/> </MultipleSubst>But this only works in Chrome:<MultipleSubst index="0"...
View ArticleĽ vs L’
I’m curious is there any list or info about what languages use ľ ď ť (one character) vs l’ d’ t’ (with an apostrophe)?I’m asking that to understand the spacing (like Ľ and L’), and especially for...
View ArticleFF Signa: the typeface of the AMD announcements
After not being able to identify it myself at the time of the Ryzen 3000 announcement, after I came across a NASA web site using a similar typeface, I tried again to use WhatTheFont at MyFonts to...
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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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