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Paramond — an extreme display serif
As I posted on Typophile, this Monday I had a sudden impulse to doodle an exaggerated light, contrasted, space-taking Garalde with impossibly tiny counters, long extenders and no respect for long...
View ArticleR.I.P.
So, /napostrophe is not needed, after all. Could we (reasonably safely) get rid of some more junk in our character sets?
View Articleela geminada - revisited
I’d like to revisit this topic, which has been touched upon before in previous discussion (such as the R.I.P. and Periodcentered threads).It seems pretty clear thatfor whatever reason, most Catalan...
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Multy lingual harmonisation
I'm adding Latin script to a newly designed Hebrew font family.Latin and Hebrew scripts are very different by nature and it is quite an interesting harmonising challenge.It is meant to be a clean...
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Great Oh No Type Co Video
James Edmonson made this awesome video of work in progress on a script type:
View ArticleProofing techniques: making sure your glyphs are correctly encoded
Hi all –I was wondering if anyone had come up with a particularly clever way of checking to see if your glyphs are correctly encoded. Folks like me who occasionally have to perform some brain surgery...
View ArticleTcomma and Tcedilla
I'm a little confused about /Tcomma and /TcedillaAccording to Adobe Latin 3:http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/latin_charsets/Adobe_Latin_3.html UnicodeCharacterNameDescription 0162Ţ TcommaaccentLATIN...
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Introducing LS Cadencer Tools - A toolset for auto-spacing fonts
Hi Typedrawers, I would like to introduce me and a project I am working on for quite a while. When studying at the Type & Media department a few years ago, I was introduced to Python programming by...
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multiscript Bodoni - Kasira
Hello all, I'm trying to make a bodoni font that includes many codepoints, which includes cyrillic, greek, and balinese. I'm particularly worried on the design of greek/cyrillic because I'm not a...
View ArticleLooking for some info on MM Fonts and AAT format
Hello, I’m currently writing my final degree thesis on dynamic typefaces. I'm interesting myself in MM and some things looks really obscure to me. I read some discussions about the subject (on MMFonts...
View ArticleGenerating weights - I started designing a regular (FontLab)
Hi there,as a beginner in type design I am super happy about the great feedback and advice I've gotten on the forums here. I have ran into yet another problem about workflow and conceptual design of a...
View ArticleRejected by Myfonts
Hello TypeDrawers,after a few years studying calligraphy and lettering design, I decided to create my first digital font for commercial distribution. However, as a self-taught with no mentors, my first...
View ArticleExport old-style non-OpenType "kern" table
In FontLab, under Options/Generating OpenType & TrueType/Kerning there's an option for Export old-style non-OpenType "kern" table. In the past, this was necessary because so few applications...
View ArticlePrinter recommendations for proofing?
What printer would you recommend for proofing purposes, today? $500 or under would be nice since I'm an independent designer.Ideally, the minimum requirements would be: - true 1200 dpi, - Adobe...
View ArticleInk Bleed Simulation - Worth it?
Title explains it, but I'll go into a bit more depth here. Is it worth it to design ink bleed in typefaces like Caslon or Garamond, or anything printed? What I mean by ink bleed is not really Papyrus...
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Digital Times (New) Roman
(I'm sure there is something about this in the Typophile archives… but of course we have no access to that anymore. Long post warning, probably suited better to a blog.)What's going on with all the...
View ArticleClarkson Book Support alternatives
I’m looking for an alternative to Clarkson Book Supports to use when handling some of my very large books. The markup on Clarkson supports in North America is absurd—a medium set runs $265, more than...
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My First Font: SILE Sans
Hello all. I'm very new to type design - I attended the Granshan 2015 conference to give a presentation about the SILE typesetting software and met a load of lovely and interesting people (some of whom...
View ArticleTypethos Continues
My project—dubbed Typethos—continues. I have asked dedicated craftsmen and women to share a sentence or two about their love of type, type design, and typography. I have been honored that so many...
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