Microsoft is hiring!
I'm pleased to announce that Microsoft is hiring a full-time lead for the Microsoft Typography Team! Want to change the world with typography? The Windows and Devices Design team is looking for...
View ArticleSmall Caps for sans serifs bad?
Hi,in a well known swiss book about typography (Ralph Turtschi: Praktische Typographie) the use of small caps with sans serif typefaces is considered as bad practice. According to Turtschi, they look...
View ArticleQz on cjk type design
Great article on cjk type design:http://qz.com/522079/the-long-incredibly-tortuous-and-fascinating-process-of-creating-a-chinese-font/
View ArticleOSX Yosemite issues anyone?
I am trying to gather reactions to operational functionality issues (not critiques of UI or UI Type selection) in Apples newest OS revision. I am particularly interested in type design software...
View ArticleThis week in type: ä 4 SVG
As sure as there’s an X in Christmas, you the typophile, or you the typedrawer, will want a Neue Haas Unica mug bearing the letter ä.Colour SVG fonts in Firefox will light up your “holiday tree,” or...
View ArticleYour method of producing multi-layer typefaces?
Hi,Today I have one question for you, I noticed typefaces like the newest one from Fontfabric: Sensa (http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/font-fabric/sensa/) has multiple layers in it. For example the shadow...
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Dating Lettering on a Stone Carving
HelloOn the outside wall of St Andrew's church at Presteigne in Powys, Wales is this carved stone with lettering saying MPL 1244. the MPL is thought to be latin for 'Mortimer is pleased to have made...
View ArticleAutomating PANOSE data
Putting accurate PANOSE classification data in a font involves doing a lot of detailed measurement of individual glyphs and then calculations based on those measurements. This is news to a lot of font...
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Kerning classes and font generation
Hello, and happy holidays to everyone,I have kind of a noob question, but hey, you gotta learn, right?So I'm using Fontlab 5. I open the "New Metrics Window", I type my pairs (let's say "LT"), adjust...
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The default line height in OSX fontbook
Recently someone reported that Iosevka's line height is inconsitent among weights, however the metrics in `hhea` and `OS/2` table are exactly same within all the subfamilies I provided.It it means that...
View ArticleReleasing Your First Typeface: An Interview with Font Bureau’s Victoria Rushton
TypeThursday recently did an interview that's really useful to beginners in type design.The interview was with Victoria Rushton of Font Bureau and it was about releasing her first typeface,...
View ArticleScript to generate string kerning lists for MetricsMachine
Hi there,I love using MetricsMachine, but I've never liked the fact I can't use my Fontlab kerning text files. Metrics machine uses 2 different kind of kerning text files: one for single pairs and...
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Freitag — toying around with a geometric display sans
So I've had this inexplicable urge to start drawing one of the most redundant fonts imaginable — a geometric display sans. In particular, I thought I'd try to make it stand out from the crowd with some...
View ArticleTypewriter typeface vs monospace typeface
It just me or there is someone else who gets annoyed when 'monospace' and 'typewriter' are used interchangeably to name a type style? I was surprised to see that Monotype has used the term typewriter...
View Articlecollecting (glyph name) suffixes
Hi Typedrawers,I started to make a rough collection of suffixes for glyph names (e.g. .sc). It would be great if you would provide other suffixes or sources where to find them. This is what I have so...
View ArticleLULU bifurcated serif (based on a french biscuit...)
HelloI recently posted another type critique discussion (Cephalonia), where more info on myself and why I'm posting these typefaces can be found, so I won't repeat myself here.The attached file shows...
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“Procedural” design software concept?
Just a concept: Is it a good idea to create a “procedural” type design software: every distinct glyph has a "construction workflow" so the data quntity a type designer have to maintain can be minimized?
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The cost of creating a typeface (in 1963)
Spurred by these old comments made by Ze Frank:"For a very long time, taste and artistic training have been things that only a small number of people have been able to develop. Only a few people could...
View ArticleCased question mark?
Are there any typefaces that have a beefed-up alternate question mark, for use in ALL-CAP SETTINGS?
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