The Great OTM 2015 Summer Poll
While you’re lying on the beach with a Cuba Libre in one hand and the fine-printed version of the amazing The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini in the other, and waiting for the waiter to serve you the...
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Overshoot and Slab Serifs
I am curious how others handle overshoots with slab serifs. On the on hand I think that perhaps they should be stronger (maybe 5%) because the neighboring slabs create such much weight on the base and...
View ArticleFL: assinging a keystroke to a specific command
I need to select an entire path from a glyph. The “Select Contour” seems to be only accessible via ctrl-context menu, not via the menu bar or any tool palette. It is hidden in the deepness of a...
View ArticleCyrillic italics vs. obliques
When designing Cyrillic, some of the italics can take vastly different forms.https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyrillic-italics-nonitalics.pngBut in some Cyrillic designs, the italics are oblique...
View ArticleType@Paris 2015: 16 typefaces in 5 weeks
Proud to announce that the 16 typeface projects and stories are available on Type@Paris People section. Typefaces designed by:Andrea RodriguezBenjamin BlaessClaudia de AlmeidaDave ColemanGoffredo...
View ArticlePolitically correct weight names
900 is Black and 1000 is Fat.Just saying.(Let’s forget about Harry.)Knockout/Champion was a nice idea, but confusing to non-aficionados of boxing.Some good ideas here:
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‘Grand Cru Classés’ sprouting from Antwerp soil
In the exquisite setting of the Museum Plantin-Moretus the Inside/Outside exhibition, organized by the Plantin Institute of Typography, was opened on Saturday 17 May 2014. The exhibition comprises work...
View ArticleI've suggested font formats being recognised by GitHub linguist. Any input...
You can read the issue in question here: https://github.com/github/linguist/issues/2516What I'd like is for font projects to be recognised as such in the language statistics + the ability to...
View ArticleGoing to Granshan?
Who of you will I see in Reading next week? http://2015.granshan.com/
View ArticleIn your opinion, what are the key advantages for an exclusive corporate...
Savings…ExclusiveMore identifiable even without a logotype…would love to read your opinions!Thanks!
View ArticleWhat is the best way to handle the Navajo iogonekacute?
I take it the dot should go (?), so it should be assembled from a dotless i, with combining acute and ogonek. All examples I’ve seen in text were iogonek + combining acute, with tittle and acute. Is...
View ArticleClass based contextual positioning - how to?
I've tried using calt but it's not really working - i.e. it works fine in FontForge but generated fonts seem to ignore it. feature calt { pos @wide @narrow' <128 0 0 0> @narrow; } calt; You can...
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Mission Impossible
Not sure if this should be under critique since it is such a specific thing, but here goes....When I was sketching this face, I really wanted the metrics to be identical between the sans and serifed...
View ArticleWebfonts: TTF still needed?
I’m thinking of leaving out the TTF in our webfont packages. I actually did it a couple of years ago already, but clients were always asking for a TTF so I delivered the packages with a TTF.But what...
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O with swash below the baseline
In Robert Slimbach's italic Adobe Jenson Pro fonts, the swash glyph for the uppercase character 'O' extends below the baseline (see left word in the picture below). At least to my untrained eye, this...
View ArticleHow do you substitute AA but not AAA, AAAA, AAAAA etc.?
ignore sub A' A' A; sub A' A by A.alt; sub A A' by A.alt;Doesn't work for AAAA, AAAAAA etc
View ArticleKinks, bumps and bad drawings
I'm trying to design my first typeface and I have found some mistakes and tried to correct them. But what about the mistakes I can't spot easily? How do I know if my characters were badly drawn?
View ArticleWould you consider OTF "source" for e.g. an open source font project?
This Twitter discussion got me doubting my beliefs about what constitutes the "source" in an open source font project. To me the source files are the scripts (if any)feature filesmaybe even svg files...
View ArticleFeature 'kern' causes overflow in fontlab
Hello everyoneWhen I try to export a font in FontLab I get this error:"GPOS feature 'kern' causes overflow of offset to a subtable"Someone can help me or guide me about this error and how can I...
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