Arabic / Persian (Farsi) / Urdu Writing And Calligraphy Software And Fonts List.
A list of Arabic / Persian (Farsi) / Urdu, or any other Languages that use Arabic Script, Writing and Calligraphy programs.if you know more programs please mention them, and I will add them.Also some...
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‘Grand Cru Classés’ sprouting from Antwerp soil
In the exquisite setting of the Museum Plantin-Moretus the Inside/Outside exhibition, organized by the Plantin Institute of Typography, was opened on Saturday 17 May 2014. The exhibition comprises work...
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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...
View ArticleWorkflow woes Affinity Designer > Fontlab 7
While Fontlab's drawing tools produce excellent results, but often I would like to use features that only exist in tools like illustrator or affinity designer. Ive moved from Illustrator to Affinity...
View ArticleHow to combine ligatures and a stylistic set?
Hi all, I simply cannot figure this one out and am hoping somebody better at OpenType could help me.I have a typeface with a lot of discretionary ligatures, as well as two stylistic sets with a few...
View ArticleWhen is a cap height not a cap height?
I was just on the point of writing some QA tests to ensure that glyphs' points which should be on the baseline/xheight/capheight were actually at the appropriate Y coordinates - allowing for...
View ArticleGive me feedback on my online tool to fix microtypography
Hi, TypeDrawers community! 👋I’m building Typopo—a free online tool to fix microtypography errors in multiple languages. I’ve shared my side-project here at TypeDrawers a while back and your feedback...
View ArticleMid-70s Lettering Effects Service
I could swear I remember leafing thru Graphis and Modern Publicity back in the 70s and seeing full-page ads for a service that applied fancy lettering effects to typositor type: complex combinations of...
View ArticleModified fonts — exclusive or non-exclusive?
I have a request from someone who wants me to modify a single character from one of my fonts for them, but is also wanting exclusivity to the modified design (exclusivity in this case meaning I...
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Robofont crashes upon launching in Big Sur (MacOS 11.0.1)
Just a warning to others and perhaps a cry for help. Was able to reproduce the problem after uninstalling and reinstalling Robofont and also downgrading from 3.4 to 3.3and my raw system log:ov 13...
View ArticlePassword protected zip-files
I'm setting up a woocommerce website to sell fonts, and read about security of downloadable zip-files. Would creating password protected zip-files make any sense? The access code to the downloaded file...
View ArticleVariable fonts with non-conventional axes
Hi everyone. Firstly, apologies if this is the wrong place for this post. I'm designing an art book for a client that is linked to an exhibition that centres around themes of change and resistance to...
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Website Privacy Error problem
I know that Type Drawers is not really the place for this sort of thing. I have had my website www.g-type.com since 2012. Since last October I have had a completely new site with the same address. The...
View ArticleSearching for a Dutch book title
Twenty-five or so years ago when I lived in Amsterdam, I enjoyed browsing design books, including one devoted to tittles.The book basically showed the wide variety of tittle shapes above the stems in...
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Non-linear or higher-order interpolation (HOI)
Hello there,Following a discussion in this thread, I thought it would make sense to create a new thread on the topic of non-linear interpolation.The principle is explained very nicely (I think) by...
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Label differences when working with Git
Hello everyone, I’m Florian and this is my first post on TypeDrawers.I suspect some of you are using Git to version control your source files. Git can label code-differences for many programming...
View Articletypedrawers doesnt work on ipad
HiCouldn't find a link to msg the admin so creating this discussion thread instead. The typedrawers page doesn't load. Tried the desktop version via safari and still won't load. I'm using ios 10.3.3....
View ArticleWhat units per em do you tend to use during fontdevelopment?
The em is the base metric, but is not based on any specific horizontal or vertical font feature (and neither is it the font height, which is WinAscent+WinDescent), but rather the em is for scale. For...
View ArticleOpenType 1.8.4 released
Version 1.8.4 of the OpenType spec has been released.The scope of changes was determined almost entirely by issues reported on OT 1.8.3 in the MicrosoftDocs/typography-issues GitHub repo. Changes in...
View ArticleThe selfless butterfly. Or: Using and avoiding ligatures.
Sharing this interesting read by Christopher Bergmann, of isoletters.https://www.isoglosse.de/2020/04/the-selfless-butterfly-or-using-and-avoiding-ligatures/
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