German Script Assistance, Antique Melone / Bowler Hat
I am a collector of German and Austrian vintage hats. I have an old Melone/Bowler hat and the following writing was found on the back of the liner....
View ArticleBook, Regular, Medium
Aside from tradition, is there any reason that would make it a bad choice to add a Book version next to a Regular and Medium version of a font? I know in many cases, Book is equivalent to Normal or...
View ArticleWill digital fonts ever enter the retro fashion cycle?
The retro fashion cycle includes type.art nouveau was popular in the 1960'sart deco returned in the 1970's1950's type showed up in the new wave 1980's1960's interpretations of art nouveau returned in...
View ArticleWidth Reduction In Sans-serif Italic Styles
I'm curious to hear thoughts on the idea of width reduction in sans-serif italic/oblique styles. Not so much with serif types as they are naturally reduced in width due to their root in cursive...
View ArticleDreaming of a new feature syntax
I have recently been looking both at some complex fonts and at the possibility of programmatically manipulating features at a high level, and it has left me feeling like there could be some ways that...
View ArticleLowercase letter slots used to house Uppercase forms.
This is a question I have asked myself many times, I've never gone into it.When you are designing a typeface conceived as all-uppercase, which would be the best way to handle the lowercase slots? I...
View Articlefontmake v/s afdko
Hi,I am in process of making (and publishing) my first font.As I research the publishing guidelines and standards, I found that the two font generating and building tools that are most widely used are:...
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metrics in InDesign different than in FontForge
Bonjour, Thank you for lettin' me in. I found this website while I was looking for an answer to this question: how come metrics differ between a design program and a layout program? And how can we fix...
View ArticleLooking for Beautiful Examples of Popular Fonts in Use. Any Recommendations?
Hi!I am looking for either a book or a website that illustrates popular fonts in use, categorized by type of usage like titles. I'm essentially looking for something exactly like fontsinuse.com. The...
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Elemaints - A Serif Family with Optical Sizes
A long time ago (2010) I have started a new typeface written in METAFONT (see http://www.typophile.com/node/73827). I interrupted the work because I had to investigate further in METAFONT and...
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Haultin's Augustine
Have an happy new year 2020 !I began my work on Haultin's Augustine some weeks ago and it begins to be interesting. The lower cases are the most advanced and capitals remain a work in progress. My goal...
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The Humpty A
All right! Stop whatcha doin', cause I'm about to ruin the image and the style that ya used to. In a display typeface, if my A is of the humpty variety, what should I do with my Alpha, Lambda and...
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Strange "p" from Griffo in Bembo's De Aetna
Hi, I would be interested to have some advices about a surprizing /p sparsely found in the beautiful "The Aetna", and that seemingly without logic. It looks like a /P with the proportions of a /p.My...
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Need some help for my new font name
Hi there ! This is my first post and I’m really glad to be here I’m a french illustrator, animator & graphic designer. You can see my work here : http://www.grootfontein.net I didn’t made a lot of...
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Pilcrow: A variable font creator
I know that most people are building variable fonts from inside their font editing software, but if your chosen font editing software doesn't provide good variable font creation tooling, you're left...
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Differently named italic family name
In a current project, I'm wondering if it is possible to use a different family name for the italic / oblique of a typeface while preserving style linking.For example:'TEST Mono''TEST Oblique'Why not...
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New FontLab 7.2: until 6 Dec $199 for Glyphs, RoboFont, FOG, TypeTool & EDU...
We have just released FontLab 7.2, a significant update to our font editor for macOS & Windows. It boasts 120 new or improved features: • New Rotate, Scale and Slant tools • Adaptive freeform grid...
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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....
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Question about identifying font type
Hi there, I am building a big scale model of the 1980 Renault RE20 F1 car with a driver figure representing Rene Arnoux. The decals for his racing suit and helmet I design and print myself. Do you know...
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