Pressing On: The Letterpress Film
Just stumbled across Pressing On: The Letterpress Film on Amazon Prime. WowCoolGonzo and so spot on for this list.I did a search for "Pressing On" across all of TypeDrawers and found not a single...
View ArticleHello from me
I am a great enthusiast who lives in a country using the Cyrillic alphabet. I've always wanted more of the good Latin fonts to support Cyrillic as well - I love both serif and sans serif fonts. For...
View ArticleFont Bakery Help
So, I've tried a couple of times to get the font bakery scripts working for me. But as a novice python coder, I'm kind of stumped. Does anybody know where I could get some kind of a visual...
View ArticleWhich extended Latin characters never occur at the beginning of a word?
The ones like Eszett. Excluding rare orthographical cases like accented letters that are only found in dictionaries.I am aware a text can be all-caps.This is relevant to a font of mine made up from...
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Detached ogonek and co.
At @Paul Hanslow’s request:I don't think the detached ogonek scheme is all that common in Polish signage. The majority just uses ordinary common fonts:Some of which are not well-crafted:Here’s an...
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Z and 7 with a stroke
What do you think of adding a bar to the waist of Z and 7? Quaint or not?
View ArticleTypography Videos (Website)
Hey everyoneHere is a website that I've created with some feedback from TypeDrawers.Right now there's a lot of conferences and type related videos (+70 videos an I have a ton to...
View ArticleItalic in variable fonts
It's great to see more variable fonts being made. One thing I'm wondering about, though, is how variable "italic" is being handled: I see fonts with an "italic" axis where the design variation is...
View ArticleCFF COLR/CPAL, anyone?
Since for graphic design apps you need SVG in OpenType fonts, most color fonts are available in this format. Of the few that opted for COLR/CPAL (supported in the browsers), all are TrueType-flavored,...
View ArticleTypedesign and Indonesia
Sincerely I hope that this question wouldn't offend anyone, especially the Serbia I'm coming from isn't famous for anything similar, but I noticed a big boom of Indonesian releases on MyFonts. There...
View ArticleCall for feedback: Indigenous Language license agreement
We (Tiro) have drafted a new kind of license agreement that ties permitted use of a font to specific language content. As far as I know, it's the first license of its kind, but if you know of any...
View ArticleMaking JSTF better
I've been trying to implement OpenType justification (JSTF table) in SILE, and, well, I can see why nobody else has done much with it so far. If I were writing the specification, here are some things...
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I finished another Art Nouveau Revival: WF Maria Theresia. Check it out!
I just finished another revival! This is "Maria Theresia Versalschrift", originally designed by Heinz Keune in 1903, and published by Schelter & Giesecke. I only had a partial specimen, so some of...
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New logo
Hey. So i'm designing my new "personal" logo. I have my "Sendoushi" but as time goes by I think I rather have a personal website with what I do be it programming, something creative and that is what...
View ArticlePosts are not marked as read anymore
It's quite irritating, posts that I've clicked are not marked as read anymore when I return to the main page. It used to work until about a week ago. Is it only me, or has anybody else seen the same?
View ArticleDonate to TypeDrawers 2020 Edition
I’m going to steal the text from the last time we ran a donation drive (2 years ago) but I also wanted to thank everyone who contributed; without you, this place wouldn’t exist!In the words of Stephen...
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Does a font used for in a picture on the web fall under the "webfont" category?
Hello,I am about to buy a font to use in a presentation and am not sure what kind of license to buy - there's web, print, media, unlimited (which is however very expensive). Before I ask the owner, I...
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Interesting Omega and Phi Inscription
Hello,I visited the Pergamon Museum in Berlin and I found this inscription, which shows an interesting form variant of the Ω and also of the Φ (it has a long ascender and long descender):Does anyone...
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[otvar] What software to use to preview STAT format 2 ranges
Hey all,I've used the very handy statmake tool to write STAT tables and viewing on Windows, e.g. in WordPad, I can confirm the defined locations show up in the font menu as intended. However, I'd be...
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