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Classic Sans Serif with a playful twist
Hello!This is my first Typeface, called Werk Grotesk. My Approach is to create a sans serif inspired by the traditions of swiss typography, but with a more playful twist and full of character. The...
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Numerals and distinction between capital O and number 0
There are typefaces that have lower case glyphs the same height as capitals as well as ones which have them higher. Is making number 0 the height of higher lowercase characters an ideal solution to...
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Do typedesigners with bad handwriting exist?
Being taught at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague in the late nineties, I left the academy with a ‘Hague scrawl’. A type of cursive handwriting that most students (that were interested in type)...
View ArticleIntroducing DWriteShapePy
Microsoft has released to open source a Python extension built using Cython for the purpose of testing text shaping of OpenType fonts using Direct Write. The model is similar to the model provided by...
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Let's chat about Trademark, Registered & Copyright Symbols
Browsing this forum and the internet in general, I found little information on the subject of copyright/trademark symbols--mostly details about which one should legally be applied where, but nothing on...
View Articleold printer choking on variable fonts
I have a pretty ancient HP Laserjet (a couple of decades old) that still runs like a champ, but recent experiments with trying to proof some variable fonts has run into some trouble. I get long...
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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...
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Elemaints - A Serif Family with Optical Sizes
A long time ago (2010) I have started a new typeface written in METAFONT (see http://www.typophile.com/node/73827). I interrupted the work because I had to investigate further in METAFONT and...
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 ArticleWhich old iMac to run Glyphs / FL7 smoothly?
Greetings to all. A colleague is considering buying a second-hand iMac (2014ish) and Glyphs. I figure Glyphs will run on just about anything...
View ArticleCalluna Sans as an alternative to Scala Sans, but...
Designing a book based on the layout used in one of Taschen's architectural series which featured Scala Sans for body text. Recreated the layout initially using Scala Sans which I'm enamored here - it...
View ArticlePictograms, Unicode, and ISO
I am developing a bespoke type family for a client that requires a set of fairly general pictograms to be included. There are toilets, elevator, stairs, parking, etc.I didn't think much about it at...
View ArticleFontLab vs Glyphs
I am a long time Fog / FontLab user but am considering switching to Glyphs as many have recommended it. I looked at Glyphs and the interface is very different from what I am used to. My question is how...
View ArticleHow do you keep track of kerning classes (or kerning information in general)?
I had come up with the idea of starting with rough kerning, with very few classes, and then gradually refine it.I grouped e.g. lowercase letters according to the height at which their body (i.e.,...
View ArticleMy text face wish list
Dear TypeDrawers community,I feel so privileged to be a member of this community, even though I do not design type — I only use it. More than once I’ve seen comments from type designers about the lack...
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(OpenType programming) Dynamic ligatures
Hi there everybody!I'm working on a typeface where I imagine some sort of dynamic ligatures playing a big role. The struggle is that I'm not very good at advanced OpenType features, so I'll try to get...
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Serifed Schwa
Being derived directly from minuscule /e, the sans serif Schwas, upper and lower case, almost design themselves, but the serifed versions are problematic. Lacking much in the way of precedent, I’ve...
View ArticlePhototype services around the world
We all know US phototype services like PLINC and Solotype, but what phototype services were available in other countries? I found a description of someone ordering phototype in the UK in the 1970's but...
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Font Engineering resources needed
Hi there, I would like go deep into font engineering, font mastering, and quality assurance, because I'd love to have solid, compatible and bullet proof files of the fonts I design. Actually, I'm...
View ArticleQuality Control Software?
Hey everyoneI installed Font Bakery, but have no knowledge of python or programming (except html/css) so I have no clue how to use it. So I was wondering if there was any good software quality control...
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