Modifier Letter Rhotic Hook
There is a letter in the unicode standard 'Modifier Letter Rhotic Hook' at $02DE. I was wondering what it is used for and who uses it ?Which languages (if any) use this character and is it worth...
View ArticleContextual Alternates and 'case'
I don't understand how to make the 'case' feature work.Adobe defines it as follows:Shifts various punctuation marks up to the position that works better with all-capital sequences or sets of lining...
View ArticleCustom made fonts in use with Google Suite
Does anybody have experience in using custom made fonts with Google Suite? According to the Google Suite Support it is possible and no problem to add your own fonts in an account, but there is no...
View ArticleFont Face Ninja
http://fontface.ninja as a polished visual design and makes it easy to play with web fonts on other websites, and download them. I figured the community here might like the blacklist request at the...
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1954 proposal to rid figures of curves
"A new set of numbers was designed which breaks away from the tradition of using a uniform stroke width for number forms, and instead makes as much use as possible of more easily discriminated form...
View Articlecopy ligature's unicode
Hi everybody,please, is that possible to make an OT feature that behaves like standard ligature feature, but when the ligature is shown it can be copied? When 'fl' is turned into ligature, the letters...
View ArticleTypedesign and Indonesia
Sincerely I hope that this question wouldn't offend anyone, especially the Serbia I'm coming from isn't famous for anything similar, but I noticed a big boom of Indonesian releases on MyFonts. There...
View ArticleGoing to Italy, looking for Jenson's Adress (and other cool stuff)
I want to visit everything I can that is related to type and printing history.So if you have any pointers to cool places please let me know. This is what I have so Museums:– Tipoteca Museum (Treviso,...
View ArticlePlacing tone marks
I'm making a typeface with an opportunity to place a tone mark for stress on syllable. In cyrillics it's usually an acute, but what glyph exactly acutecmb or acutetonemark? Also how that will work with...
View Articlebopomofo tone marks
Hi,do bopomofo glyphs allow for tone attachment?"It is important to understand that bopomofo tone marks are not combining characters. They are regular spacing characters that are stored after the...
View ArticleAre you following #fontlicensingjuly?
I'm answering one question a day about font licensing on twitter till August 15th but calling it #fontlicensingjuly. Feel free to submit questions here.
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Illuminated opinion
Hi gang! This is a little something I think about putting on a t-shirt for millenials Looking for opinions before I smooth the lines in Illustrator. Sorry for their messy quality - I am not that...
View ArticleComposite glyphs
We speak about compound glyphs, for example uni1EA4 (Latin Capital Letter A with circumflex and acute).In some cases the glyph exists as a whole in the font, in other cases the glyph is composed of two...
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Arabic Design Contest
Dear Friends,You are cordially invited to design one Arabic font to win our tool, namely "QalamBartar" shown at and elaborated at https://ahmedgraf.com/2018/06/12/qalam-bartar/ plus a number of unique...
View ArticleLicensing for Canva?
Today, I received a technical support request for one of my fonts: the user had trouble uploading the font to Canva. Now, this was the first I heard about Canva, a simple online graphic design suite...
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Cursive Anchors in Latin scripts
I have been experimenting with the kerning of glyphs using 'Cursive Anchors'. Although these seem to work as expected in the font editor when the font is exported and installed in Windows the cursive...
View ArticleMost exiting stuff of the past year?
Hi all, I have been away from the font scene the past year (and maybe a bit more).. so, to get up and running fast: What are the most interesting links to (font releases, font soft, font business, etc)...
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Reason for this kind of double quotation marks
Hello,I was wondering why the closing double quotation mark of courier looks wrong to me. I heard that type writer fonts based on the original letters of type writer machines are using " for opening...
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Noordzij's Cube for real
Awesome: http://letterror.com/misc/noordzij-cube.htmlWhere can I order one of these!? And if it comes delivered as separate letters: I *think* I would be able to work out what weight goes where.
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