A (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,...
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Robotfont UI elements
Forgive me for my noob question, but i'm trying to figure out what the shape icons on the glyphs in Robofont mean. I know you can assign different colors to the the appearance of the glyph, but how do...
View ArticleFont Validator 2.1 Release Notes and status
Font Validator is a tool for testing fonts prior to release. It was initially developed by Microsoft, to ensure that fonts meet Microsoft's high quality standards and perform exceptionally well on...
View ArticlemacOS Mojave?
Any reports yet about which type design software breaks under macOS Mojave?It is the last version of macOS to run 32 bit applications, so FontLab Studio 5 gets another year of life ;( (Notwithstanding...
View ArticleSynchronizing masters FL7
Hi all,I am trying to synchronize masters as I did in Glyphs and I can't for the love of me understand how to do it; I have given up. I set a simple weight axis, added two masters on it, from there I...
View ArticleFontlab 7 Help -- Absolute Beginner
Hi everyone,I hope this is the right place for this. As a complete novice Fontlab 7 is HARD to use. After much trial and error I managed to create an "o", but it felt unnecessarily complicated and I...
View ArticleHow oversampling rate affects how smooth anti-aliasing is
The higher the oversampling rate, the smoother the anti-aliasing is.1×1 oversampling (no anti-aliasing): https://i.imgur.com/AK13ioa.png2×2 oversampling (one of the earliest forms of anti-aliasing):...
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Humanity sans – An attempt to create a humanist sans serif
Hello, Type Drawers,I am a graphic designer by profession but I tried my hand at typeface design as part of my MA in Graphic Design 3 years ago at Portsmouth Uni. With the global pandemic happening,...
View ArticleViệtnamese question...
Here's a slightly weird question which may be offtopic for typeDrawers, but I thought I’d ask anyways...Does anyone know whether and/or how Việtnamese uses diacritics for indicating things like poetic...
View ArticleUnibook
I'm working with Unibook to print code charts and ... hoping someone might have similar experience with the (teeth-gnashing) issue I'm facing:Glyphs in my font come out blank when the code chart is...
View ArticleFontForge Suddenly Exporting Corrupt Files. Can Anyone Help?
I was working on my font today and when I generated an .otf file I found it was corrupt. The .otf will install but none of the open type features I've programmed work in Adobe software. The validation...
View ArticleBasic rules for bearing
About the placement of glyphs within their boundin box, are there general rules to follow?I have found that, in general, both the lsb and the rsb of the capital letter A are zero. For the capital...
View ArticleAt what point of the design process do you start digitising your drawings?
Hello, I am new to type design and I am currently working on my very first typeface. So far I have sketched out most of the lowercase and uppercase letters on paper.I was wondering, at what point do...
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MT Fournier, II
Dear experts,I greatly value your knowledge and experience, and so I turn to you for advice. A bit of background. I'm a total novice, and I'm looking to very slightly change a font for my own, purely...
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MT Fournier digital, I
I have two questions about MT Fournier. I'll ask here one, and post the other under another category, where it belongs. I really like MTs version of Fournier. But, recently I took a closer look at its...
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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 ArticleOpen sourcing VTT
Is there value and interest in an open-source version of the VTT compiler? This would be a command-line compiler that could take a TTF with TSI* tables and compile it down to a hinted TTF (optionally...
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Crowbar: A text shaping debugger
For anyone who hasn't seen it on Twitter already, I have created a tool called Crowbar which will help you to debug shaping/layout issues. It's web based, but it runs on your own browser so you're not...
View ArticleCan a newly designed script be owned/privatised/copyrighted?
I had a discussion with Deborah Anderson (Researcher in the Department of Linguistics who runs the Script Encoding Initiative project) about how one might attempt to encoded a script in Unicode if the...
View ArticleLicensing ethics (aka tricky clauses) – Goldman Sachs
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/6/25/21302831/goldman-sachs-font-sans-criticize-disparage-licenseThis reminds me of some of the license clauses I saw in a past font management role (client-side). A...
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