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View ArticleRobofab/ FL > Export Current Font to UFO error
Hi all,I'm receiving this output when trying to run the Export Current Font to UFO macro:Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 9, in <module>ImportError: No module named...
View ArticleMorisawa Officially Launches Type Design Competition 2016
http://en.morisawa.co.jp/about/news/3156Morisawa Inc. is pleased to announce “Morisawa Type Design Competition 2016” calling for entries of original typefaces from across the world.Morisawa Type Design...
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Light Extended Sans
Hello everyone!New to this forum although frequented Typophile every now and then out of general interest while it was up and running. Myself and my partner @Shauna Buckley have a keen interest in...
View Articlereplace letters with OT feature
Hello,A specific problem: In cases where the letters 'rn' meets in words, I want to replace the 'n' with an alternate one.And I can do so with this script:feature calt { sub r n' by n.ss01;} calt;But:...
View ArticlePostscript Type 1
A client has asked for old Postscript Type 1 fonts. Is there anyway of doing this from Glyphs or via some reliable converter? Or do I have to go through FontLab?
View ArticleShort Monotype Descenders
I vaguely understand that Monotype had limitations on the length on descenders. Here's an ad from Lanston Monotype advertising fonts with longer 'traditional' length descenders. What exactly stopped...
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need some critics for my first font
Hey there, hello everyone. I'm a graphic designer for almost 10 years and i'm just starting to realize that font design may be my cup of tea as i enjoy it too much and keep coming with the new ideas....
View ArticleArcane font licensing questions
Hi. First time caller…I have some font-embedding/licensing questions and I hope to learn some answers or at least get some leads.First some quick background: In a nutshell, I’m a designer at a design,...
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Free FontLab VI Public Preview for Mac OS X available now! :)
Hello Typedrawers! Yesterday at ATypI Sao Paulo, we premiered the FontLab VI Public Preview for Mac OS X. It’s still a pre-release in-development product, but now you can take a look at it and let us...
View ArticleInside Paragraphs: An Interview with Font Bureau Type Designer Cyrus Highsmith
Hey everyone!Knowing typography is the best way to improve as a designer. But the traditional books on typography can be very daunting to those starting. As visual people, an overly detailed or rules...
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Multy lingual harmonisation
I'm adding Latin script to a newly designed Hebrew font family.Latin and Hebrew scripts are very different by nature and it is quite an interesting harmonising challenge.It is meant to be a clean...
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Freitag — toying around with a geometric display sans
So I've had this inexplicable urge to start drawing one of the most redundant fonts imaginable — a geometric display sans. In particular, I thought I'd try to make it stand out from the crowd with some...
View ArticleMy first typeface (a student project), would like some advice
It's not a matter of extreme importance, but since this is my first experience in type design, I would like to get some advice regarding letterforms and their mutual cohesiveness, just to have in mind...
View ArticleEnding ligature
Hello to all,I am almost finished revising one of my script fonts on FontLab. There is an alternative ending "s" labeled "s.final.1". Under OpenTypeface window, I have it under "calt" feature, it reads...
View ArticleOnline shops and language
Random reminder how English EULAs etc. feel for a large part of the world : )https://www.stormtype.com/business/conditions
View ArticleLowercase Hashtag?
Do you think it's worthwhile to include one in your typeface?What's your take on this?Just wondering.Thanks!
View ArticleLetter frequency for letters and their neighbours
I'm looking for a resource that shows letters and their most common immediate neighbours. Does anyone know one for Latin script languages? I know the COD provides some pairs for diacritic glyphs. And...
View ArticleThe Mysteries of the Unicode Table
Rather than start a new thread every time I have a question about some obscure glyphs, I figured it'd be better to create a new thread as a catch-all. Feel free to chime in with your own questions.This...
View ArticleBase64
What is a good way of converting to Base64 without uploading the TTF to some other persons site?
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