Typedesign 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 ArticlePostscript Font Name Generator
I'm looking for a way to select a folder of .otf and .ttf font files, run a script (I'd assume in Mac Terminal) that will grab the following information and generate a .csv file with the following...
View ArticleArticles by Nick Shinn
I’ve written for a variety of magazines, mostly about type. PDFs are at the Shinntype site.Some of it is timeless, while some of the earlier pieces are a bit out of date—but may be interesting as...
View ArticleBroadcast License Pricing For A Daily News Show
Hi all. Hope you're all safe and sound during these crazy times. Once again, I'm Tré Seals, and I run Vocal Type Co. I just received my first broadcast license request, and it's for a daily news show...
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Standard set of emoticons
Suppose one were to include a set of emoticons in one’s normal fonts.Which would they be?As a starter, no doubt, versions of these Facebook “Like” icons.
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Finished another Art Nouveau revival. This one fought me all the way; glad to...
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View ArticleUnexplained phrase in GPOS explanation
In Microsoft's official OpenType spec page on GPOS Pair Positioning, PosFormat 1, there is a small side-remark which is not explained any further:A PairPos subtable also defines an offset to a Coverage...
View ArticleLooking for a Specimen of "Ovid" by Heinz Keune, published 1903 by Schelter &...
What it says on the tin - I have a partial specimen from the 1912 Hauptprobe, but I'm missing some critical letters and most of the numbers. Would anybody have another specimen or use example?...
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 ArticleIs there a way to control glyph order in glyph browsers?
Using Fontlab 7 and Affinity Designer. i've made a font of related symbols and would like them to appear in a certain order in Affinity's glyph browser. Instead they show up in what appears to be...
View ArticleMissing glyph after export (MyFont Validator) even glyph is part of the font
Hello,I have a problem that I trying to solve for a day, I have not found anything about it. So after exporting font file with Fontlab 6/7 to, otf ps. Monotype MyFont Validator tool show me missing...
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How Can I Improve This Script Logotype?
Hey there friends! I'm working on perfecting a script logotype for a client and am attempting to make this as perfect as can be. I've reached the point where I've stared at this for so long I would...
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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...
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Freaky Greeks
Check out the Greek Compacta and Eurostile in the 1988 Letraset catalog—quite progressive, I think. I like in Eurostile how the ζ is a z and the λ is dropped. And then in Compacta, they keep the β, ζ...
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Two Discretionary Ligatures for the Same Letter Combo
Hey all,I tried to program two different discretionary ligatures for same letter combination in FontForge and it didn't work. To clarify I wanted to see if it would be possible to have two different...
View ArticleComma accent: acute or comma style?
(Well, the title says it all, but isn’t it fun typing mmaacc? Shoutout to Mark Simonson!)
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GFS Heraklit
Hello everyone, I'd like to share a new font which has been in the works for a while now. GFS Heraklit, to be released soon by the Greek Font Society, is a digital revival of Hermann Zapf's "Heraklit",...
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Which g?
Which italic g is most suited to accompany the Roman at the top? I know which I favour but I'd like to see what others think.
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Punctuation dilemma
Further to this previous discussion; https://typedrawers.com/discussion/2418/which-g/p1I have developed the family further, but I'm undecided about the style of punctuation. I had started with the...
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