How to generate a static font family from a variable font? (details inside)
Hello everyone. I apologize if this is the wrong place for this post, but I see that many people here are knowledgeable regarding variable fonts and I've been struggling for a couple days to achieve...
View ArticleKnuth Scotch
Hello, scholars,I have a twofold question, and every hope that the combined knowledge on this forum can answer it. First: does anyone know which original face was Knuth's inspiration/source for his CR...
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Font Editing Gig
Greetings,I am looking for some help making some small changes to the font " Have a nice day Bold Tall." The creator of the font told me to come to this site to get some help I am using the font for...
View ArticleHistorical background of De Vinne, Howland and other related late 19th...
As most of those I am acquainted with probably know, athough I never stopped being involved and passionate about it, de facto I have been away from actual typeface design for some years. Now I have...
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WF Schelter Antiqua, another resurrected Art Nouveau type
My upcoming Art Nouveau design kit needed a representative body type. I chose Schelter Antiqua because it manages to be legible, stately and quite quirky at the same time. I feel it'll be a good fit...
View ArticleHow do you folks handle quality control?
One thing I've realized in my type design journey is how tricky it is to prevent little errors. Be it an inconsistency in spacing, a random glyph not quite sitting on the baseline, an odd curve,...
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 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...
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 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...
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Font metrics settings for desktop and web fonts
Hi there,I would like to know if this classic approach to font metrics settings for desktop is still considered to be valid. Are you still using this scheme? How do you adapt it for webfonts?In...
View ArticleHow to Autotrace to avoid font copyright infringement
Edited by James Hultquist-Todd. Typedrawers does not support piracy.
View ArticleAutotracing is Boring and Autotracing is Exciting
@Hrant H. Papazian Whachutalkingabout? Autotracing is exciting as hell. Perhaps you might consider straight up autotracing of historical fonts boring and I agree, that could be boring. But it's kinda...
View ArticleHerbert Bayer
I belatedly came across this article from the Smithsonian magazine about the life and works of Herbert Bayer, and I wanted to...
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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 ArticleQuestions about RMX tools & macros
I had a look at RMX and find it useful specially RMX slant (keeps tangents perpendicular), scaler and axis. I'm wondering if RMX is necessary and if any of you using it find it useful if so giving an...
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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 ArticleDo you have the most obscure of Czech words.
I’m trying to find a Czech word that contains the pair ľ<left ascender>. I’ve searched through two word lists of over 270,000 words each and got nothing. But if ďk can occur there must be an ľ...
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Reinette, having fun with the Renner Type
A trial with an Art nouveau design : the Renner Type from Bruce Foundry, 1899 found in De Vinne catalogue 1914.
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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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