Italics workflow
What is your workflow on italics?I've noticed that you can get quite far by finishing a font and setting kerning, and then tilting/slanting glyphs + of course modifying the glyphs that needs different...
View ArticleMonotype Introduces New Font Subscription Services
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160125005126/enI don't know anything more about this at the moment, but it's limited to the Monotype library at the moment.
View ArticleOpenTypeTools Macros for FontLab Studio - beta testing
I have been working on porting the functionality of the OpenType.tools website to a Python module for use within FontLab Studio. It is ready for beta testing, and I would love to get some feedback from...
View ArticleQuick question about naming copyright
I want to name a new font "Regata Sans", the font "Regata" already exists by Paratype, and "Regatta" also exists.So is it "legal" to name it adding a "Sans"?Thank you.
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M75: going nowhere
Hello, all. I just can't make this (these) work... many of the individual bits are nice, but as a whole, they don't link up—much like the nearby eponymous highway, there are all sorts of things...
View ArticleFinal/intial features
Should I expect software to honour and make substitutions for "init" and "fina" features in a Latin text font? Glyphs does, which is lovely; Harfbuzz does but only when it's told to; and I can't work...
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Microsoft Font Validator lives!
This week Aaron Bell published a liberated Microsoft Font Validator on Github under the MIT libre license:https://github.com/Microsoft/Font-ValidatorBuggy fonts benefit no one and having the Microsoft...
View ArticleWhat is “Unger” as an adjective?
This refers to the “post-Unger” or “Unger” descriptors I saw type people online using when describing a typeface. I’ve done some digging but did not find any clear definition of how a typeface is...
View ArticleIncorrect font order in menus
The order of the weights of my type family is not showing correct even in the Adobe Creative Suite menu. Below you'll see the WeightClass values that I used, and the final order:WeightClass Values:...
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Technical Trivial Facts (.ttf)
In 1964 someone found out that it was possible to directly draw on the IBM 2250 Graphics Display Unit with a morsel of removable chalk mounted on the end of a piece of wood, which was secured to a...
View ArticleBrief notes on legibility (research)
Some will consider my view on the subject (utterly) blurred, while others will consider my posts on Facebook too long by definition. That is why I tried to keep these notes clear and brief.
View ArticlePython install on windows 10 using fontlab 5.2
I upgraded to windows 10 and installed Fontlab 5.2. I installed python as well but I am not sure if there is a specific way to get fontlab to recognize that python is installed. I looked at the...
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Microsoft Font Validator runs native on Mac OS X!
(I think this deserves its own post thread!)I wrote before Christmas that I was making the font validator run standalone as mac os X command line binary, no need to install mono separately. So it...
View ArticleBook project advice needed - ABC of Custom Lettering
I've been working on a lettering book with Ivan Castro. I've not done a type / lettering book before and was wondering the best place(s) to promote it and who I should be sending review copies to....
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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Microsoft Font Validator adds CFF checking
2016-02-08 was tagged on github ( https://github.com/HinTak/Font-Validator ).Code snapshots (-src-*), mono/.net binaries (*-bin-*) and Mac OS X disk images (*.dmg) are...
View ArticleCasual-Users and the Font Market: An Interview with Type Designer Laura...
Hey everyone!TypeThursday just published an interview with script typeface designer Laura Worthington.We discussed how she became a typeface designer, the rise of the casual user market and design...
View ArticleWhich of the two is better ?
Hi,So I worked on this ampersand incorporating PP like around last year sometime and left it at that. Here's the link to 1 &2. Looking at it now, I noticed it had a few issues and addressed it....
View ArticleRussian and Bulgarian cyrillic kern-strings
Hi*I've already googled around for this obviously — but maybe somebody has something they'd like to share?
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