Urgent Web embedding question
Has anyone ever heard of a foundry or reseller that prices web embedding based on the specific pages on which fonts are rendered? This is as opposed to pricing an entire website's traffic. Thanks
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Interminable neon
From the cover of a truly horrible 1973 record album by Christopher Scott. (The title piggy-backs Wendy Carlos’ epochal 1968 Switched on Bach, which programmed Bach on the Moog synthesizer, becoming a...
View ArticleReleasing variable fonts alongside static fonts
What is your practice regarding releasing variable fonts and static flat static instances of the same family together?1. Do you stack "Variable", "VF", or any suffix to the family name? (Or style...
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Fonts won't upload to Myfonts - vertical metrics issues?
Hello - and sorry for what seems to be a very stupid question.I have been making fonts for a couple of years now and I have uploaded most of my 500+ fonts to the sites of various resellers. Sales were...
View ArticleColored icon fonts?
I need a tool to create a multicolor symbol(Icon) font out of many SVG files. actually need something like icomoon.io but unfortunately, there is no way to export the font in OTF Colored format in...
View ArticleVariable Font Validation
Is there a validator tool?Obviously overlaps are ok, but do winding directions make a difference in variable fonts? I ask because I believe that flipped composites are ok. (?)
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Join The Digital Currency Revolution: Custom Font for a Bitcoin Startup in...
Dear TypeDrawers Community,We're looking for a type designer to help us create a custom font.Since 2014 we used our current concept for Bitcoin Wednesday as rendered below with the "Good Times" font,...
View ArticleHow to determine the correct width for a Roman upper case slanted stroke, per...
Hello, I'm working through a project of drawing and inking all of the Roman upper case letters, using the instructions given in the 1922 edition of "Standard Lettering" by Roy C. Claflin. Since this is...
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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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Ogonek Positioning - Heavy Capital A
Hi everyone,A question for Ogonek users. Does this positioning on the Heavy style look natural? I would love to get a comment from a Polish native.
View ArticleOrder of execution of OpenType features
Just checking something here. The OpenType Cookbook (by Tal Leming) suggests that it's the designers responsibility to order features:The order in which you list your features is very important. This...
View ArticleDon't font vertical metrics ever affect leading in InDesign?
I'm doing a small revival project, and I'm trying to match the original source as best as I can, including the leading.But it seems that, when it comes to leading, InDesign doesn't care about any...
View ArticleAny danger in a bottom and a top zone overlapping?
By definition, zones cannot overlap, and the distance between any two zones must be at least 1 + 2 * BlueFuzz.What are the threats posed by a top zone (e.g. smcp) overlapping with a bottom zone (e.g. a...
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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 ArticleTTF vs. OTF on older Android
One of our clients claims that a hinted TTF does not render as well than an OTF on (older) lower resolution Android. Does this ring a bell for anyone, for this is news to us.
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FontLab 7.0.1 for Mac and Windows released!
I have some good news for the end of 2019 ☺️ If anyone wondered why I was gone from TypeDrawers for a long time — this is pretty much the answer. Together with my phenomenal team at Fontlab Ltd., we’ve...
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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 ArticleReverse chained contextual substitution?
Has anyone ever implemented GSUB type 8 lookups? Yannis Haralambous' book tells me that it was specifically designed for Urdu but I'm not sure I believe him, and I don't know of any Urdu fonts that use...
View ArticleCopying bitmaps issue after updates
I had been working with an older non-cloud version of Photoshop CS5 and Fontlab Studio 5.1.2 on an iMac with El Capitan for the last few years. Just this week I updated to Fontlab 5.1.6 and updated my...
View ArticleGPOS in sequence with zero width joiner?
This works:pos A' <-100 0 -200 0> Z;So does this:pos A' <-100 0 -200 0> B Z;But this doesn't:pos A' <-100 0 -200 0> uni200D Z;It looks like Chrome ignores the zero width joiner...
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