What are the great conceptual fonts?
What is a conceptual font? For me it's a font that exists because of a strong idea. Some examples:Westminster: Machine-readable numbers (MICR) adapted to the Latin alphabet.Helvetica Now: Helvetica...
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Eau de Garamond — a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond
A few years ago, I was first hit by the creative urge to make a faithful sans companion to Garamond — not just another humanist sans tipping its hat to the old master, but a sans that really was...
View ArticleHow can I show font names instead of samples in Word font menu for...
This is a bit of a dumb question, as I had this figured out at some point, but I can't for the life of me get it to work again with some new fonts: For symbol fonts, I'd like the application font menu...
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Æthelflæd
A friend of mine is writing a musical about Æthelflæd, Queen of Mercia, and has asked me to make a font for the libretto. He's asking for something with a mediaeval feel to it but easily readable. I've...
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You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
You are an aspiring type designer slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle... In your rucksack are two prints of the Roman alphabet. One is what we’d call normal, the other's letter widths...
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Fontlab 7 - Windows reads exported font name differently
I'm making a font named 'LS Ultra Grotesk' using Fontlab 7.It's a Multiple Masters, with 6 weights. Here's from Font Info > Instances. I'm exporting the font to Web PS (otf) using these Instances.If...
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Geometric Blackletter
This is a mostly useless font, created for fun. It's approximately a take on Fraktur, but quite a few solutions required divergent designs.This is not designed for legibility, it's designed for...
View ArticleReactions: How insightful is Insightful?
I’m considering a consolidation of the Reaction options below each post. Showing too many options is unnecessarily complex and lessens the effect of any individual Reaction. I can see justification for...
View ArticleConversion to .SWF format
Does anyone know how to convert a font file from .OTF format to .SWF format ?This is a font I have designed myself so I could also export it in .WOFF format or even .TTFThere are several online...
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Hi there 👋
Hello, I am Kedar. I am originally from India. Lived in the US for 10 years. And currently, I am in Canada.I am a huge "typophile". Fonts and individual glyphs really captivate me. And the love for...
View ArticleMicrosoft Visual TrueType Version 6.34 [December, 2020 release]
Download is available here. What’s new?Version 6.34 [December, 2020 release]The following are changes since 6.33 [November, 2019 release]Per display DPI awareness. Support per display DPI when...
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Devanagari Critique
Hi all.I am in process of developing a Devanagari (+Latin) typeface. The use-case is to make a tall Headline-like Devanagari font face which does not limit itself to straight lines and embraces curves...
View ArticleVersioning
Hello, I'm curious how other designers approach minor versioning. Specifically, if your update or change is minor, but is specific to either a subset of individual font styles and/or specific to romans...
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Single-descender Cyrillic de
Oksana overall strikes me as a charming design, but I've been curious about some of its solutions. Most notably, the single-descender de – is that a done thing? is it meant as an intermediary form...
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Paramond — an extreme display serif
As I posted on Typophile, this Monday I had a sudden impulse to doodle an exaggerated light, contrasted, space-taking Garalde with impossibly tiny counters, long extenders and no respect for long...
View ArticleProblems with kearning in Glyphs 3
Hi. I have started to learn Glyphs and just downloaded Glyphs 3. In the new edition of the program I cannot do kearning as efficient as in the previous version. Whenever I use the arrow keys to change...
View ArticleRoman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?
I'm surprised I haven't noticed this before. I was drawing up some letters and noticed letters like Z/N don't really follow the nib angle. So I got my PP out and wrote it just to be sure and sure...
View ArticlePrecise Positioning of Devanagari Base glyph + Matra + Visarga + Svarita
How may we precisely position 4 glyphs as in the Sanskrit word हरिः॑ ?1. There is a Base glyph Unicode $0930 = र2. There is a Matra glyph Unicode $093F = ि3. There is a Visarga glyph Unicode $0903 =...
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Arabic font : "Mark" problem with Ligatures.
hello,I'm creating an Arabic font but i got a problem that when i type "Lam" and put mark "tashkeel" on it and "Alef" after that I found that the ligature doesn't work . but without the "mark" the...
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