Guides for designing Cyrillic letters Њ, Љ, Ћ, and Ђ
For those who are interested, here is the article I wrote on how to design Cyrillic letters Њ, Љ, Ћ, and Ђ. https://tinyurl.com/vh9dg8gInitially, I took these notes about three years ago when I made a...
View ArticleHow can I compare the set size of two different members of the same font family?
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...
View ArticleOEM Code Page bit of OS2.ulCodePageRange
When should / would I set bit 30 of the OS2.ulCodePageRange1?The spec simply says "OEM Character Set" and I've run into a dead end looking for more info. Many fonts do seem to have this turned on ...
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Technically correct versus practical application
I’m nearing the final phase of development in the font shown below and am struggling with a practical dilemma. The font is currently in two forks — one for Roman and the other for italics. Both make...
View ArticleNew Arabic font system
Raqeem font systemI want to make an Arabic font file and the main thing should know is that I need to change Arabic font from low logic to high logic as English style. I want to change from the fourth...
View Article(Glyphs) Is there a script for unlocking all the kerning pairs in a master?
I've designed a variable typeface in Glyphs that interpolates between two masters. One is a grotesque sans serif, and the other one is calligraphic. Everything is working fine interpolation wise,...
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OpenType GPOS Lookups for Urdu
I am trying to understand the rendering of "بڑ" (Urdu - Unicode 1576, 1681) with a font Jameel_Noori_Nastaleeq.ttf. The string is converted into glyphs [607, 460, 471, 1651] by the GSUB table. I can...
View ArticleSoftware Development Engineer for Adobe Type
Our team is looking for a developer to help us ensure the quality of the fonts and tools we produce at Adobe. We're responsible for the production of Adobe Originals typefaces as well as the...
View ArticleThe business of a type foundry and font licensing
Hi everyone.I’m in the process of writing my Master Thesis about Change Management in SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) with a focus on type foundries and the font market. Can anyone point me to...
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Eau de Garamond — a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond
A few years ago, I was first hit by the creative urge to make a faithful sans companion to Garamond — not just another humanist sans tipping its hat to the old master, but a sans that really was...
View ArticleVisible BOM
The SIL Recommended Characters for Non-Roman Fonts (https://scriptsource.org/entry/gg5wm9hhd3) suggests, for U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE, that: "BYTE ORDER MARK, making this visible might be...
View ArticleA (new?) algorithm to make two G¹–continuous cubic Bézier curves G³–continuous
In the first section of this draft, I describe a formula to make two G¹–continuous cubic Bézier curves G³–continuous. Though the formula actually works for two G¹–continuous cubic Bézier segments only,...
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 ArticleFontLab VI Tutorials?
Hi,I just recently acquired FontLab VI. The next step is to learn the software. I have been using Glyphs before, and they were kind enough to make tutorials on their website accessible to beginners...
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Synthium Display
Hello everyone!I'm a graphic designer, currently working at an agency in the DC Area. I've been in the field since 2015. My interest in type design was sparked in college and since then I've been...
View ArticleNew forum typeface
Hello all,Recently, it was noted that the previous typeface, Alright Sans, does not have a character set that covers all the characters that we talk about. So for the time being, we've switched to...
View ArticleContract/agreement for custom font work
Hi everyone, I've recently been asked to do a custom typeface for a company and I'm looking to create a contract/agreement that specifies aspects such as: 1) What the work entails (and what it doesn't...
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Question about Panckoucke
Hi ! A friend has shown me last week a small book titled "Le génie de Monsieur de Buffon", first edition, printed by Panckoucke in Paris, 1778. She has it from her father and She has thought it could...
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Circled Numbers
I created two set: 1) circled numbers and 2) black circled numbers. from 1 to 10:both are serifed glyphs.I put the first ones in the slots from uni2460 to uni2469and the second ones in the slot from...
View ArticleQuestion about Font Engineers
What exactly font engineers do?How are they diffrent from type designers ?Thanks
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