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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...
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w_r ligature in script font
I have doubts about "w_r" ligature in my script font. On image below example in word "wrong".It's readable or reminds too much "ur"?
View ArticleSurveying people in the font biz on money in type design
I wanted to hear from practicing type designers and other folks working in type professionally, on what they think has happened with money in type. I had a few questions:...
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Autohint better than my TTF Hinting–What can I improve?
Auto hint vs. true type hinting in glyphs (TT instructor) Hello everyone. I’m new at TT Hinting and I want to understand how it works. For learning I take a font I’m currently working on, so there are...
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Granjon's late Cyrillics
Over in the 'Latinised Greek' discussion, @Nikola Kostic askedDoes anyone have a sample of the Cyrillic that Robert Granjon cut at Rome in 1582, based on Russian and Serbian models, that Robert...
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Sculptural Beauty: an invitation to participate
While working on type I sometimes take screenshots because I am intrigued by the image on the monitor. The layout of windows, details in the Bézier curves, the combination of colors, or even the file...
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Code style is broken
It appears that styling text as code results now in only displaying the first line and truncating the rest. I think existing snippets might be affected as...
View ArticleProblem with new font websites
Hello everyone,I have created some fonts and posted demo versions of these ones on Fontspace and Dafont. But with time new font websites have see the day and owners of these websites don't hesitate to...
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Glyph Collector
During the first semester of the current school year, KABK-LetterStudio student Gábor Kerekes programmed a small nifty tool in the context of the ‘1001 ways to digitize type’ module, named Glyph...
View ArticleLooking for guidance on publishing my first font.
I anticipate publishing a display typeface in the next few months. I'd like to offer an all-around commercial license at an affordable price but I'm open to other suggestions. At the end of the day I...
View ArticleWhy are A and E crossbars so rarely aligned?
Hi Type Designers,I'm an interested novice who is curious to know your thoughts on this burning type design question:Are there any good examples of type design in which they are aligned?Thanks in...
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A FontForge plug-in to harmonize or tunnify (balance) or add inflection...
While working on my type family Elemaints, I have written several scripts that enhance the capabilities of FontForge. On https://github.com/linusromer/harmonize-tunnify-inflection I have published some...
View ArticleQuotes about typography, not by white guys...
I had an idea to start each lectures in my typography classes with a quote about typography. .. Having gathered a collection a couple dozen I find (not surprisingly), they're mostly by white men with a...
View ArticleType making costs through the ages
Hi everyone,I'm searching for documents, books, articles, about the evolution of type industry, especially about the costs and the workforce needed to produce a font from its early begining to today....
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Request: examples of the Avoiuli writing system
Do any TypeDrawers members have writing examples of the Avoiuli writing system? It's a script used by the Turaga indigenous movement on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu. There is little information about...
View ArticleAwesome 1+ yr Font Engineer role in Silicon Valley, CA @ Gr8 tech co!
Please send your resume to jbrandon@aquent.com if interested.Or if you have referrals, please keep our referral rewards program in mind: https://aquent.com/rewards/Please let me know if you have any...
View ArticleHow can I compare the set size of two different memebers of the same font...
Hello,I expanded a font I made many years ago with a bold and along the way something went missing and the two weights differ by ten glyphs. What is the fastest way to find which the DIFFERENT glyphs...
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Need name suggestion for the axis controlling apex in variable font
Hello TypeDrawers!This is my first topic here, hopefully I'm doing it right.Currently I am playing with variable font format and want to add an axis controlling the middle apex especially on M and W.I...
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Purchasing old type-specimens
Hey! I'm looking to start a collection of old type specimens (basically anything before 1980), and I'm wondering if you have any insights as to where to purchase some? I've been looking a bit on...
View ArticleBack to typography but... Software?
Hey. I haven't designed type for around 10 years. At that time I was working with Fontlab 5 and it seemed enough for me with some caveats (interpolation, auto hinting.. and so on). Coming back to the...
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