The Number sign—now and then—across languages.
While wondering how to draw the number sign for my digital version of De Vinne, I stumbled into these very interesting considerations by Jonathan Hoefler:«Nº was the number sign before # became a...
View ArticleAn opportunity for early-career creatives at Google Fonts
Google Fonts is looking for early-career creatives (eligible to work in the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Visual TrueType (VTT) OS Requirements?
The latest version of Visual TrueType 6.34 [December, 2020 release] requires July 2016 version of Windows 10 or newer (Windows 10, version 1607) to run.We are curious whether anyone is running earlier...
View ArticleWhat 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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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...
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Hey! California brand & type designer, Amy Hood here.
Hey all! I'm a brand and type designer based out of Southern California. I'm the cofounder of Hoodzpah, and we mainly work on brand projects with a focus on custom type solutions. We've recently been...
View ArticleOn the logic of bearing for Italic
Let's start with the capital letters.Bearing for Roman is relatively simple, or at least in theory it is based on clear principles.The LSB and RSB in /O/ are the same; the LSB for /D/, /E/, /F/, /H/,...
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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...
View ArticleIn feature 'kern' lookup 'kern' positioning rules cause an offset overflow...
Hello, a client asked me to modify the Google font Raleway. She (a graphic designer) needed the basic numerals to be different. After some back and forth of me explaining copyright, we desided to at...
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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Text center alignment at the font level
Hello,I'm hoping to get some insight on how one can mimic the behavior of center text alignment as in that of text applications. I need this to happen at the font level, within specified contexts....
View ArticleHow to enter Font Info
Hi, as a first-time type designer (working in RoboFont) I am looking to understand how to learn what should be entered in Font Info table.The General tab (Identification, Dimensions, Legal, etc.) is...
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...
View ArticlePrivate Use Area
Unicode currently allocates a large number of PUA codepoints which lack any interpretation, including the entire plane 15.I was curious if there has ever been discussions within the Unicode Consortium...
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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 ArticleDispute over foundry naming
Hello everyone,I had this “aha moment” looking at my social media handle recently: the word Ronotypo has a lot in common with Monotype. Same sequence of letters, except for the first and last one. If I...
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Sans Forgetica font doesn't actually boost memory
https://www.futurity.org/sans-forgetica-font-memory-2375842/
View ArticleQuestion about Font Engineers
What exactly font engineers do?How are they diffrent from type designers ?Thanks
View ArticleBest place to start a foundry?
Hi everybody!I’m curious to hear opinions or experience on what country is the best for incorporating a foundry? I’m a EU resident, but my home country is far from being business friendly taxes-wise....
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