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Autospacing: the CounterSpace library
Those who know me will know I have become somewhat obsessed with the problem of automated letterfitting: not just spacing (determining sidebearings) but also full fitting (adjustments for uneven pairs,...
View ArticleCouncil for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
New change to the official recommendations for German orthography: E3: Bei Schreibung mit Großbuchstaben schreibt man SS. Daneben ist auch die Verwendung des Großbuchstabens ẞ möglich. Beispiel:...
View ArticleWho owns DIN typeface? (Type questions about rights and public domain)
Hello,A student asked me a question about legal rights of DIN, and that I wanted to know for sure:1) Is it legal to grab a vector drawing of DIN from the 90's, change minor details and sell it on the...
View ArticleLatinized Greek
A Brazilian pianist has an extensive series of videos on YouTube, which contain nice music.In his latest video, he is accompanied by a flautist, who has included a message of love in the video (where...
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Material Icons Bezier Paths
Has anyone else opened up the Google's Material Icons and looked inside them?Does anyone know of a 'cleaned up' version that is available and not so... wonky?
View ArticleAdobe Spark and font EULAs
I just had a look at Adobe's Spark app. The web interface allows one to upload fonts to their interface to use when creating social media posts with the app. They do enjoin the user to make sure the...
View ArticleMVP / request based typeface?
I've been in and out of typography for already 10 years. It all seems like a cycle. The general "I miss designing types" to the "this takes so much time without a profit at all".As a developer I'm used...
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Hungry for seasoned advice on my first sans
Hello! :-)I am a young type enthusiast trying to learn the craft. I am interested in oddities and what I think is considered vernacular lettering: sign-painting, tombstone engravings etc... I'd like to...
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Windows blackbox bug?
Hello, I initially posted this at stackoverflow and github but was advised that this might be a better place:The problem is that values gmBlackBoxX and gmBlackBoxY are supposed to give the dimensions...
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Colorful Transparency Algorithm (Windows)
Dear font technology enthusiasts,I let Windows draw a few glyphs with transparent background SetBkMode(glyph_hdc, TRANSPARENT); and to my astonishment, I saw this:I think it's absolutely gorgeous and...
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Alphabetica 2019 — Den Haag, Saturday November 23
Alphabetica 2019Saturday, 23.11.2019, 09:00 — 22:00West Den Haag (Lange Voorhout 102, former American embassy)Entry: €10 — €35One-day symposium about letters, scripts and languages. Organized in...
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The design process
Hello everyone,I am doing a paper and designing a limited typeface for my bachelor's degree, and I've discovered that something has gone wrong in the beginning of my process, esp. the sketching part. I...
View ArticleDry Transfer Lettering — Germany — perhaps circa 1970 ?
I might also be looking for help with a blackletter font ID, but for now, looking for any advice on what companies had significant market share for dry transfer lettering (such as Letraset) in...
View ArticleThe middle spur of the minuscule “l” in French type designs, historically up...
In doing some research I was reading through the historical brief of HTF Didot. About halfway down the page there are a couple of captions that talk about a spur placed midway the left side of...
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Augustine in Plantin's Museum ?
Hi ! I went in Antwerp yesterday to see In Plantin's Footsteps exhibition. As last year I was impressed by the marvellous work of the students ! Particularly the delicate Andrey Abramov's work on...
View Article»Typograf« publisher Neuber fakes font downloads and advertises illegal font...
This is a really questionable business practice IMHO: free-fonts dot com is a website operated by »Neuber Software« (publisher of »Typograf«, a commercial font viewer for Windows). First of all it...
View ArticleContemporary type designers in Chicago
Hi gang,I'm looking for contemporary type designers/foundries based/born in Chicago, with an eye toward potentially licensing their work for a very civic-minded client in that city. So far, I've...
View ArticlePlex; IBM's new font identity model
Saw this news item.It is not particularly new that a company has commissioned a new font for its own exclusive use in order to enhance its own corporate identity.But while this may not be a first,...
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Cedilla design options - Verdana style
I know this has been discussed in some ways before, but I've run across another cedilla design that I wasn't as familiar with in Verdana. It's almost like a flip of the ogonek (sorry for the small...
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