Experience with Monotype royalties owed
Hi all. It's a long time since I've hit up a type forum! I wish I could post something more positive but I'm reaching out to hear others' experience dealing with Monotype and receiving all owed...
View ArticleStumped by Word 2011 Mac again...
Just when I feel like I have a full grasp of tackling font naming for Word 2011 Mac, I'm thrown a curve ball...I usually master typefaces with Reg, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic style linked, and then any...
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Segnieur Serif Display Italics
Hello all!I'm building my first set of italics to earlier released Segnieur Serif Display ( https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/paavola-type-studio/segnieur-serif-display/ )Could you please point out if you...
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WWS Subfamily Name
If a font needs the WWS Family/Subfamily Name fields but has Medium width, Regular weight, and is upright (no slant), should 'name' table ID 22 (WWS Subfamily Name) be [A] "Regular", [B] "" (blank), or...
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grunge effect
I would like to apply the same grunge effect from the English font to the Arabic font.Is there any automatic script, python or action to do that?
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The cooper black treatment...on a blackletter. Looking for your input.
Hello all,I hope my somewhat frequent feedback requests aren't starting to annoy anybody. What can I say, this is a great community and I honestly have no other place to get such high quality CC.I...
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1917 Book of Letters: fun examples of Greek Type Design
I inherited this book some years ago when my grandfather passed away, it is titled Πληρες Αγγλο-Ελληνικον Επιστολαριον [Complete Anglo-Greek Letter Book], subtitled with the contents of Εμπορικας,...
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Why is this hard to read?
I took a stab at drawing the name 'Augusta' – however, people are having a hard time reading the Au-part.Do you have ideas as to what I should change to make it more readable?Also, what's your opinion...
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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...
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Simple rounded wordmark
Hi allI have a wordmark in need of critique. It is supposed to look cute and playful, but modern and stylish. It uses the same circle forms that are also in the artwork for the product that it...
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I am looking for criticism and advice about graffiti font
Hello everyone, I am Gaspar, typedesigner from Chile. Last year I developed this project but it still doesn't quite convince me. I need another look to improve the project.-Throw-up is a Display...
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Type.World BETA Anncouncement
Dear colleagues,I'm happy to announce the Beta stage of my Type.World project.If you’re thinking to offer this to your customers, you can now study the documentation at https://type.world/developer and...
View ArticleFAQ: Vietnamese
Hi,As some suggestions at the previous thread, I creat this topic for you to ask questions regard adding characters supporting Vietnamese.A guide for Vietnamese typography written by Donny Truong:...
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Toq
Hello, this is intended for display and will have more weights and styles. Still no kerning.
View ArticleGoldman Sans?
Hey all! I'm writing a news story about Goldman Sachs' new corporate font, and was wondering if anybody would be willing to speak to me re: whether it's a well-designed, aesthetic, and otherwise good...
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Mobius Display Type
Hi everyone!Though I've posted on here before, this is the first time I've posted about any of my work. (for context, I'm a graphic designer who has done a few type design courses, so I'm more of a...
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Call for design suggestions: Anglicana W
Our letters V and W are made out of V's, but in Middle English there was another v, called in Unicode Middle-Welsh V, and a sort of doubling of that, with a lot of glyph options, called the Anglicana...
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Tweaking TypeDrawers UI
I spent a lot of time reading posts here to learn about type, but I find the reading experience not so great because the UI is a bit cluttered and too tight. Instead of complaining and waiting the site...
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Primer in font coding and font technology
Hello,I would like to get my feet wet in the technical side of fonts because I feel, as a designer, that there may be some iportant things I might be missing by blindly using the default settings of...
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