How do I get InDesign to break lines at non-space characters?
Sometimes InDesign will break lines at non-space characters immediately. I would start typing abcde..., and as soon as the string reaches the border, InDesign would break the line. Cool.Other times it...
View ArticleUC-only font with double unicodes
Dear TypeDrawers,I’m about to produce an uppercase-only font with at least two unicodes per letter: One for itself and one for the lowercase variant (e.g. A: U+0041 & U+0061). My test results have...
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A look at the Bulgarian Cyrillic Letter „в“ (uni0432 / uni0432.loclBGR)
This is the beginning of a project to collect and systematize various forms of the Cyrillic letter „в“ (uni0432 / uni0432.loclBGR), used in painted fonts in the 20th century. So far, 50 cases have been...
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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 ArticleChess Diagram Characters
Many of you may be aware of the three commercial Chess fonts offered by Alpine Electronics, Hastings, Linares, and Zurich.Others of you may be aware of fonts available freely from such designers as...
View ArticleAdobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
Back when Adobe finished converting its font library to OpenType around 2003-04, I wanted to draw some kind of line in the sand, but that idea got quickly shot down from many sides. However, the day...
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Angled quotesingle and quotedbl
I put angled quotesingle and quotedbl in a proprietary typeface, making sure the client approved that, but have followed convention otherwise.However, perhaps I should make all my “stupid” quote marks...
View ArticleName generator for your posh fonts
Name generator for your posh fonts.Or fancy housing developments. (For condos, prefix with “The”.)
View ArticleCorporation letting public download my typeface for free
Just found that an international fitness chain has adopted one of my typefaces for event branding (good) and is making all 20 styles of it available as a free download on their site. (bad)Any advice...
View ArticleCoreText doesn't support GSUB8 at all?!
OK, this is going to cause me some serious issues.$ cat foo.fea languagesystem DFLT dflt; feature liga { rsub A' B by C; } liga; $ python3 -m fontTools.feaLib -o foo.otf foo.fea test.otf $ hb-shape...
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...
View ArticleIndesign Script to test Character Variants in Indesign
Indesign is capable to access any opentype feature from a script.Here a script to test a font with Character Variant in Indesign:if( app.selection.length ) // do we have a selection?if(...
View ArticleAdobe webfonts
I've seen a few websites featuring my fonts where they are apparently hosted by Adobe fonts. My fonts aren't on Adobe Fonts (not for lack of trying!) so I was wondering what this means?
View ArticleHow do you implement ijacute and IJacute?
Following up on this discussion, https://twitter.com/a_dg/status/543818584351203328https://twitter.com/underware/status/544520154055733249How do people set up ijacute and IJacute? They have Unicode...
View ArticleLooking for a freelance font designer
Hello! I am looking for a font designer to make some tweaks to an existing font that we use in our embroidery program. I need to customize a few specific letters in the font. I have approval from the...
View ArticleFont with locl feature
Hello,Can anybody give me the name of a free font with some extensive locl feature for European languages? I'm writing one but I face some syntax questions so I could do with a good example. Thank you...
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Upcoming Online Cyrillic Type Design workshop
Hi everyone! I am organising an Online Cyrillic type design workshop together with Maria Doreuli.What: 2 days of theory and 4 days of in-depth reviews and individual critiques in a small 12-person...
View ArticleTypography Instructor
Hey there! Looking for a great typography instructor or two. Preferably located in Chicago, IL, but that's not a mandate. Reach out to me at sarah@chicagoportfolio.com if you're interested and I'd love...
View ArticleCopyrighting Font Software
Does anyone have any experience in how to submit font software for copyright purposes? Apparently they reject the actual OTF/TTF font formats and are requesting a XML format? Does this sound right? And...
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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...
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