How much time do you usually spend on font promo images (specimen)
Let's talk about font promo material (mainly digital for online selling, I saw the other thread about printed specmens). I know it really depends on the typeface and what features are intended to be...
View ArticleDefault master and correct order in the list of weights
Hello everyone! I using FontLab 7 and this is my first time working on a variable font. The last weeks a have been reading a lot of manuals and books to do everything right, but now i stuck at one...
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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...
View ArticleMicrosoft to Choose New Default Font to Replace Calibri
Microsoft is presenting five candidates for its new default font, to replace...
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Which are the most appreciated small foundries as of today?
And which are the more interesting/innovative things they offer?I am thinking both in terms of function, but also of inherent strength of design/products.As a side question, which are in your opinion...
View ArticleLeroy, Gorton, and Standardgraph
Thanks to this article on Typothequehttps://www.typotheque.com/articles/from_lettering_guides_to_cnc_plottersI learned something new the other day.Old computer keyboards used the same style of...
View ArticleFont QA Survey for PhD.
Hi everyone, if you type geeks have time (5 mins max.) to fill my PhD. survey on Font QA, I would be very grateful. I'm (hopefully) starting PhD. on Bratislava university VSVU in Autumn 2021 and I'm...
View ArticleLooking for John-Paul Knox/Perrin OT/Marquet OT
Dear experts,I'm wondering if anyone knows how to get in touch with M. John-Paul Knox, creator of Perrin OT: http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-43897.htmlI'm really infatuated with that face, which I've been...
View ArticleOnĕipŏt is not a real language.
For all the type designers out there who are using Latin Plus without looking at the spec: Onĕipŏt is not a real language. According to Underware “It’s just a technical fallback (If I remember...
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What constitutes a Spoiler?
I'm curious about a new (to me?) TypeDrawers feature: the spoiler.Found at the bottom of some posts, it's a button that, when clicked, reveals a previously hidden part of the post. I've encountered it...
View ArticleHappy 25th Birthday, OpenType (May 6)
Do you have any fond OpenType memories? I remember it was a kick to see features gradually get added to Adobe apps. Was Photoshop 7 the first to support some features or CS? I wonder if on its 50th...
View ArticleWhat's your standard glyph set/coverage?
Curious how everyone determine their standard glyph/character set for a font.I also need one for myself, but don't know how to determine them.For example in Fontlab: ISO 8859-1 Latin 1, Windows 1252...
View ArticlePet peeve: empty .notdef character.
I just spent some time browsing fonts on typekit and was surprised by the number of fonts I came across which had a blank .notdef character. What's worse, a few had blank, zero-width .notdef...
View ArticleHyphen-minus and mathematical operators
Hey y’all,I’ve been helping somebody master a few fonts and I’ve run into a problem.Normally I’ll design hyphen-minus (-, U+002D) to be a hyphen, and add a proper mathematical minus (−, U+2212) to...
View ArticleSpecial dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar
Hi there, I’m doing some character set research and wondering about the following two characters & whether they ought to be supported (and why, and how) – input welcome:softhyphen (uni00AD), aka...
View ArticleWhat does font production mean?
For instance (from a Klim Type Instagram post):[...]Design: Kris SowersbyEngineering: blancotypeProduction: fostertype[...]What exactly did fostertype do?
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Unnamed squarish font with felt tip pen handwriting influences
Looking for any feedback / critique from this fine community For this one, I have initially drawn inspiration from square / squircle typefaces like Eurostile, but also drawing from a technical 'Rotring...
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Variable height axis font
Hey there ! I’m working on a variable height font. As variable height axis is not really something the variable font format is made for, I’m facing some issues and I have some questions I’d love to...
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Small text Granjone with Cyrillic and Greek
Hello.This is a small text typeface based (loosely) on Granjon’s Ascendonica. (As seen here: https://search.museumplantinmoretus.be/Details/collect/206965) (I am not sure about the name yet.) My aim is...
View ArticleType Production Artist/Designer
I am looking for someone to digitize a typeface that I have designed.It is a geometric, all caps display face that was inspired by typefaceslike Broadway and Boul Mich, but influenced by Prisma.
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