MyFonts' pricing guidelines - do you agree?
Their article "Common prices for single styles" states:$10 – $19This price range typically works for display fonts like scripts, casual fonts, or other highly decorative and specific faces. It brings...
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Ergam CJK
I am Learning Mandarin as I design the glyphs in FL6, found a very polite and nice Chinese guy at my home city (and in exchange he's gonna be tought my native language by me ). What I am interested in...
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‘Grand Cru Classés’ sprouting from Antwerp soil
In the exquisite setting of the Museum Plantin-Moretus the Inside/Outside exhibition, organized by the Plantin Institute of Typography, was opened on Saturday 17 May 2014. The exhibition comprises work...
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Punchcutting tools: Loupes, etc
Punchcutters in the 20th century seems to have mostly used 2 kind of loupes for punchcutting: traditional jewellers eyepieces (you can see P. H. Rädisch and M. Carter using them at Enschede in several...
View ArticleFixing Style Linking on a Retail Font
Is there a way to FIX the style linking on a purchased retail font? When in a Microsoft application on a Windows PC, like Powerpoint, and you change the weight of the type to Bold using the "B" it...
View ArticleFonts in the Wild
Just our of curiosity - after you've released a new font what's the soonest you've seen it on a file sharing website. 12 days for me.
View ArticlePirated fonts being sold on Etsy
People are selling fonts on Etsy. Many are free fonts simply resold as commercial releases at rock bottom prices. I’ve seen some free fonts being sold by multiple Etsy sellers. In some cases they’re...
View ArticleDumb question about Japanese...
This is almost certainly in the wrong category, but nothing fit.I've notice a fairly large number of Japanese fonts have names containing 'min' or 'go' (for mincho and goshikku). But I was wondering if...
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Question: Characters in the Upper Case (diagram from Updike's Printing Types)
Hello! I was wondering if anyone could help me with the diagram below, which is from Updike's Printing Types.I didn't recognize the little linear glyphs on the far right.Does anyone know what they...
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Fontlab 5 - text in space glyph
Does anyone know what this is in the space glyph in the font window (FL5.2)? It looks like it says DEF to me. Seems to be in some fonts but not others.
View ArticleThe 2019 Font Purchasing Habits Survey
Mary Catherine Pflug has posted this year’s edition of her survey for Monotype. Despite some reservations, I think it’s a valuable effort on the whole and can teach us all a lot. For the type designers...
View ArticleSwitching to class-based kerning
I'm working on a font which is already largely kerned, using table-based kerning. The main problem, besides the inefficiency with regards to the storage of the kerning of accented glyphs (with which I...
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 ArticleLatin small letter n with macron
For a transliteration problem, I have to insert in a bibliography a text by Panikkar entitled:The Vedic Experience. Veda Mantraman̄jarī.Now, the lowercase <n> with the diacritic of macron does...
View ArticleInteresting piece on Type Casting in California
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/m-h-type-foundry-san-francisco?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=4a46d3464a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_...
View ArticleVariable Fonts and Graphic Design
Hi! I'm currently studying about variable fonts and their application to the graphic designer work.I'm not a programmer, but I would like to know if there is a possibility for developing an algorithm...
View ArticleMetrics Machine – adjusting default kerning units
Hello everyone! Do you know if it’s possible to change they value of the kerning keys in MetricsMachine?Default is:arrow key = 10alt+shift+arrow key = 5alt+arrow key = 1I was wondering if it is...
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white space compensation or other reasons in N, M, W etc.
Hello,when I was drawing Ns, Ms, Ws etc. symmetrically (in the first row of the first picture) I've been told to put for example the right Stem of the N nearer to the diagonal stroke (second row). So...
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Chaining substitution (?)
Plz, consider the image:And here is the problem: where I have a text in small caps, but with capital letters (second line of the image; in LaTeX, for example, <\textsc{D'Onofrio}>, but the same...
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MSWord 2016 Digit Printing Issue
I am facing issue in Windows 10 (MS Word 2016) in printing a circle Ornament around Arabic Digits. It is displaying correctly in MS Word as required, but when I print it or make a PDF it just Print the...
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