Microsoft VOLT lives!
After almost 8 years!https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3011Microsoft VOLT 1.4.273 release notes Overview Since the last public VOLT release we have added various features and...
View ArticleWhat should a student use?
For a design student, what is the best option for software to dip toes but do so decently?There are free options for type design. FontForge but, runs as UNIX on Mac and there is Glyphr on the...
View ArticleItalics 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 ArticleThe future of combining marks.
How far away is a future in which precomposed characters built of letters and diacritical marks are no longer in fonts because they’re all composed on the fly with mark-to-base and mark-to-mark? Will...
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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 ArticleLULU bifurcated serif (based on a french biscuit...)
HelloI recently posted another type critique discussion (Cephalonia), where more info on myself and why I'm posting these typefaces can be found, so I won't repeat myself here.The attached file shows...
View ArticleThe Met new logo
I am sure you all have seen this by now:http://www.vulture.com/2016/02/metropolitan-museums-new-logo-the-met.html?mid=fb-share-vulture
View ArticleMicrosoft Visual TrueType 6.10 with Autohinter, available for download
A new Version of VTT, (VTT 6.10) is available today. The download is available herethe download can be installed as a fresh install, or as an upgrade from the last release 6.01 August 2015.some details...
View ArticleCustom webfont not showing in Firefox44
Is anybody having a problem with custom fonts not displaying in the latest Firefox update? It worked perfectly fine prior to the new release, now it's a complete no show. Does anybody have a workaround?
View Articlefirst use of arrows to indicate directions...
... On signage and in sign-writing specifically, but in typography, lettering and even technical drawings, maps and so on *, when did the arrow become a symbol for directions and ultimately, THE the...
View ArticleCall for papers: Visible Language, 50th Anniversary Edition
Looks like a nice opportunity to write about type...---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Kevin Larson <kevlar * microsoft punto com>Date: 10 February 2016 at 16:58Subject: Re: [ATypI]...
View ArticleThe Monotype Recorder (Digitalized)
Here you can download several issues in PDF. I've always loved this magazine!http://www.metaltype.co.uk/monotype_recorder.shtml
View ArticlePUA hack or separate font?
I need to display an alternate paragraph sign, as well as an unencoded irony mark reliably across browsers without depending on OT support. The irony mark has no place in Unicode, unlike the paragraph...
View Article"Nine different ‘alphabets:’ Inuit experts meet to standardize language"
This is interesting.http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/nine-different-alphabets-inuit-experts-meet-to-standardize-language/
View ArticleNotifications via Email not working?
Not receiving any notification Emails for topics I've bookmarked. I've checked "email" in my notification preferences ("Notify me when people comment on my bookmarked discussions").Yes, I do have...
View ArticlePetite Caps, anyone?
When I discovered there is something like Petite Caps within OT features, I thought it would be widely adopted. Petite Caps may be very useful to handle accronyms and camel words, besides adding...
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Glyph width with TTX
Hello all, I am trying to accomplish what I thought would be a fairly easy task. I'd like to export the glyph width (as measured from leftmost to rightmost node, without advance width) from a font. The...
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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...
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Seb Lester's doodles, calligraphy or lettering?
I am curious about your opinion on this. It is very common to see blog posts and interview answers defining lettering and calligraphy. At first they seem very different concepts, but there is such a...
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