Extinct Caslons?
I'd like to kindly ask for your help with a question. Surely some learned member of this forum has the answer. I'm a huge fan of caslonic type. Huge. I collect them compulsively--can never get enough...
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Latin without Cross Sign and Arabic Without Dots
Dear Friends,Is it possible to remove the Cross sign from the Latin letters "f" and "t" without sacrificing readability?!2. Why unnecessary dots are added sometimes to the Latin text?3. Is it possible...
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Handles Near Inflection Node
I did quite some mathematical investigation in "harmonizing" cubic Bézier curves. However, I am not sure how to handle the problem with handles near an inflection node. The following picture shall be...
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Sans Forgetica font doesn't actually boost memory
https://www.futurity.org/sans-forgetica-font-memory-2375842/
View ArticleE-commerce platform recommendations?
There're plenty e-commerce platforms out there, but which to use for selling fonts? It's get a bit tricky with a variable product (single weights/families, licences for print/web/etc and the amount of...
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Liter Grotesque
Hello everyone 🙌🏻!My name is Anton Skugarov. I am an interface designer. I decided in my free time from the main work, for self-education, to design a font.The task for myself was formed as follows —...
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Playful Italic Sans Critique
Morning friends,It seems I'm utilizing the "Lettering Critique" category fairly often! I'm back at it again drawing a yet another logotype. The homie @Matthew Smith gave me some great feedback...
View ArticleMicrosoft Visual TrueType Version 6.32 release [October, 2019]
Download is available here. What’s new? Version 6.32 [October, 2019 release] The following are the changes since the 6.31 [October, 2018 release] release of VTT: Enhanced vertical accent placement....
View ArticleLithuanian I/i with ogonek in serif typeface
We know that in Navajo, the ogonek should be centered, whereas in Polish (Ą, Ę, ą, ę) and Lithuanian (Ą, Ę, Į, Ų, ą, ę, į, ų), it should be attached to the rightmost part of the letter (except for Ų,...
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1569, Granjon: quote, prime or apostrophe?
Hello all, For our group research project for the Expert Class Type Design at the Plantin Insitute in Antwerp, Belgium, we currently study and revive a typeface cut by Robert Granjon in 1569–70:...
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Color font consulte
*******Hello! My name is Gaspar Muñoz, from Chile. sorry for not using my name on my nickmane, i forgot when i signed up :smile. I have a question about how to superimpose the glyphs at the time of...
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How gamma distortions affect color fringing
When the ClearType tuner gives you this choice:This is what you're really choosing between:If you simply disable ClearType, the renderer is classic GDI, this is what it renders.and of course text in...
View ArticleRegular and italic with the same character widths
Hello all,I am designing a sans serif typeface and want to apply the same character widths for the italic as I used for the regular font. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this decision? Are...
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Natural Condensed Display
Hello guys!I am a brand designer with an incredible admiration for typography so for a project I'm working on right now, for an Interior design studio, I decided to take a stab at my first typeface...
View ArticleFont Validator 2.1.5 release
Release note of 2.1.5 at the bottom - It has been 18 months since 2.1.4. The good thing since 2.1.4 is that I finally got round to work on the C# part of Font Validator (instead of fixing up missing...
View ArticleFontforge: How do I create stylistic set?
I'm working on developing an understanding of stylistic sets. I'd like to include them in the typeface I'm designing. As I understand it, in Creative Cloud software, the user goes into the Opentype...
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Ring and acute over an A
I'm looking for opinions on how best to address the height problems with the A Ring Acute.There seems to be at least a half dozen workarounds for squeezing it down. In lots of fonts, the diacritics are...
View ArticleHigh-Quality Doves Specimen Online
I found this document at the Internet Archive:https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_leaves-bibles_elfColgate1O71936-19751It includes pages from several publications of the Bible famous for...
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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...
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A newbie’s attempt at a serif typeface... Please be nice, but not too nice
Hey there, good people I thought a while about first introducing myself in full length, but then I told myself that my short story doesn’t really justify that. About me: Philipp, turning 22 in a few...
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