Microsoft 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 ArticleMy website is getting long in the tooth - looking for recommendations for...
My website is built on pretty old technology, and I'm being told by my hosting provider that they'll cut me off in the not too distant future. I'm looking for recommendations for an ecommerce platform...
View ArticleFont Naming and Google Chrome
I've stumbled on a(nother) dark corner of how fonts are named. Best described by an example (using my actual situation):In Google Chrome 84.0.4147.89 on Win10x64, in the selection of the Standard Font...
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...
View ArticleHow to edit the glyphs in a substitution table (i.e. small caps glyphs)?
I've been using Font Forge, and I have a font that already has a smcp substitution table, but it's missing some glyphs (it has all the regular latin letters, but is missing ones with diacritics, and...
View ArticleExtinct Oxford/Aitken?
Luc Devroye says two folks in the Bay Area revived the beautiful Oxford type around 2002. They named it Aitken:http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-36982.htmlAnd yet, it's nowhere for sale. Also, no one else...
View ArticleLooking for Black Pepper originals
Hi everyone,A design studio from a friend is searching for the originals of:Black Pepper by Peter Steiner circa 1972https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/79055/black-pepperThey told me that they could be...
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Critique needed for this customized wordmark!
Hi,Here is a wordmark which is based on the typeface Andes neue. I have tweaked the e/ to form a ligature with o/ and redraw the B/. from scratch. What to do you think about it? Majorly - 1) I am...
View ArticleMatching marks while also ignoring marks
Is it possible to match a mark glyph in a sequence (to chain a lookup on it) but also ignore other mark glyphs in that sequuence (including other copies of the glyph itself)? Probably best understood...
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Hanzi machine
Hi, found this interesting poster on the internet, anyone have any info about what's written and what the machine is?
View ArticleHow are encodings and charset tables organized in CFF font file?
The CFF specification Chapter 11 to Chapter 13 gives a rough description of what encodings and charset data are organized in a file. CFF Specification. Here are some questions.Considering the possible...
View ArticleTrueType hinting in 2020
I would like to ask about the “modern” TrueType hinting workflow.Over the last few years I have been using ttfautohint --control-file.However, manual hinting must be introduced to meet the detailed...
View ArticleText Samples for Each Script?
Been struggling to assemble a set of test / specimen text samples that cover the set of Unicode scripts. Might be a useful resource for font developers.I'm not looking for an exhaustive character set...
View ArticleAre off-curve points considered for the Bounding Box?
I am hoping that someone can shed light on whether off-curve points are considered when calculating a OpenType glyph's bounding box. There is a check in Font Validator - E1112 - that reads in part:...
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Semi-inversed contrast display COMIC font.
Hi everyone, I'm Lorenzo, and I'm still somewhat new at font designing, I just started early this year. This would be my 4th font in the making, but I'm still want to improve more.The inspiration for...
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FFAA (First Fat Antiqua Attempt)
Hi all, first post I work mostly in the UI design field and don't have a lot of typography experience.I'm working on this black extended Antiqua type, based on specimen from the Bulgarian artist Boris...
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My first attempt in type design
Hi everyone! I'm happy that I just discovered this community as it seems to be all I'm needing to improve my activity in type discipline. I'm a visual communication student in Argentina and here type...
View ArticleWOFF2 and Modification Restrictions
Is converting a font licensed for use as a web font to WOFF2 generally considered to be modification?My primary concern is with fonts licensed under the SIL OFL. There is a caution in the guidance...
View ArticleVariabe Font issue in Indesign 2020
Hi.I hope it is the right place to ask for help in this matter:I have this typeface, that has separate variable font files for Romans and Italics. Both fonts have corresponding named instances and one...
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WF Habsburg, another Art Nouveau Revival, fresh from the oven!
Well, resurrection, rather. It's another design by Heinz Keune from ~1903. This complements the narrower, but very similar WF Wittelsbach. I was particularly smitten with the three different Umlaut...
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