TypeDrawers Member Appreciation
From time to time the management will identify those TypeDrawers members who consistently add relevant insight and interest to a variety of discussions on the site. There are no awards to hand out,...
View ArticleEn/Em dash length for condensed style font
Should I still follow the by-definition-rule of their length? or some other way to follow in condensed/compressed style font?
View ArticleClarkson Book Support alternatives
I’m looking for an alternative to Clarkson Book Supports to use when handling some of my very large books. The markup on Clarkson supports in North America is absurd—a medium set runs $265, more than...
View ArticleAfter writing exactly 2k a-z sentences, I’ve quit the Daily Pangram job.
The audience for a good pangram is very niche, but there are many type designers in it. As many of you know, I started the Daily Pangram 7 years and 8 months ago. I have published an original pangram...
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Technical Trivial Facts (.ttf)
In 1964 someone found out that it was possible to directly draw on the IBM 2250 Graphics Display Unit with a morsel of removable chalk mounted on the end of a piece of wood, which was secured to a...
View ArticleOrigin of mechanical slant
Wikipedia mentions Linn Loyd Benton’s pantograph invention could derive slanted forms from an upright drawing. I wonder if someone have more details about how it worked? Were there other (mechanical)...
View Articlelicensing type for high volume print: B2C billing, etc
I'm trying to find out if a single desktop license covers use in B2C (Business to Consumer) print environments such as IntelliJet. These are used to print customer bills, bank statements, direct...
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Carry on or stop?
I started work on this font - partially because I thought it would be a fun style, partially to do interesting things with scripting:which was all well and good and then I discovered this:Obviously...
View ArticleVTT size run and narrow glyphs
I’m using VTT to work with a font that has lots of narrow and zero-width characters. These glyphs overlap in size run, which makes it impossible to view the glyph at size. Can I space them out? If not...
View ArticleWindows doesn't use bitmaps embedded in .TTF/.OTF (FontForge)
I'm trying to add embedded bitmaps to my outline (vector) font. It's essentially a 'pixelfont' that is supposed to have a 1:1 "pixel perfect" representation at a size of 12px (which is 9pt, on my...
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Light Extended Sans
Hello everyone!New to this forum although frequented Typophile every now and then out of general interest while it was up and running. Myself and my partner @Shauna Buckley have a keen interest in...
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Introducing LS Cadencer Tools - A toolset for auto-spacing fonts
Hi Typedrawers, I would like to introduce me and a project I am working on for quite a while. When studying at the Type & Media department a few years ago, I was introduced to Python programming by...
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Untitled serif, student type design
Hello typedrawers,it is my pleasure to introduce myself with my first, and truly humbling, attempt at designing a typeface. In the past I have always been drawn to letter shapes and practiced...
View ArticleSelling on your own platform vs. MyFonts or other distributors
Hey guys,I'm new to the forum, this is actually my first post. I've made one display typeface, but I'm giving it away for free currently. When I start to sell, I really want to be solely focused on...
View ArticleTypeface to accompany Canada 150 logo
@Ray Larabie has designed Canada 150, a single, unified typeface that supports Canada’s two official languages, as well as the indigenous languages in use in Canada.It’s a curious set-up, in which...
View ArticleAnalog letter making tools
A discussion to share tool recommendations. Pens, brushes, ink etc.
View ArticleProgramming ligatures and `locl`
Recently many programming typefaces provides ligatures for operators, i.e., `!=` will be look like `≠`. However some operators may have different meaning in different languages, for example, `/=`, the...
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Nihilo (working title) Sans
Hey, I'm a Graphic Design student and this is my first typeface. I've been working on it for a few months on and off. I started drawing a few letters and it's sort of evolved from there, no direct...
View ArticleFont customization price quote
Hello everyone,This is my first time posting a question on TypeDrawers.I've been approached by a potential client asking for a quotation for a font customization from an existing font where the license...
View Articlefancy microsites for non-Latin typefaces?
Hi TD, Looking for examples of interesting/ well-designed micro / promotional sites for typefaces or web fonts that at least include scripts beyond Latin. For example: http://ernestinefont.com/features/
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