TypeParis 16: Apply before 15 March 2016
application deadline: 15 March 2016!https://www.typeparis.com/#applybeforeTypeParis is an intensive programme based in Paris. Our unique approach continues the long tradition of type design study that...
View ArticleTypography education online?
Is there any good master, post-graduate course or diploma in typography online?How about under-graduate programs?Thank you.
View ArticleEquality Challenge, dyslexia and sans serif
Does anyone understand the ECU's specific interpretation of SENDA to advise sans-serif font usage (see below)?Following from Special Education Needs and Disabilities Act (SENDA, 2001), the Equality...
View ArticleDevanagari: conjunct alignment what looks worse?
In most Devanagari fonts there are half-form + conjunct consonant pairs that do not align in any attractive way. What do Indian readers consider least unsightly: connecting the two glyphs even though...
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Devangari conjunct formation: which ja + nya + ca conjunct is correct?
Below are two outcomes for forming the Devanagari conjunct ja +halant + nya + halant + ca. Which is correct? The two on the left use features code compiled by Glyphs, the two on the right are Murty...
View ArticleOne Year Later: An Interview with Louis-Rémi Babé and Yannick Mathey of...
Hey everyone!This week, TypeThursday interviewed Louis-Rémi and Yannick of Prototypo.You can read the interview on MediumOne point I found surprising from the interview was Prototypo's expressed...
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Personal change of direction
Hi all, A note to let you know that as of March 1, I will stop being part of the MyFonts team. I was never an employee — all MyFonts’ European collaborators are contractors — but in the course of the...
View ArticleATypI Warsaw call for presentations
The call is now open until March 31. New this year is a dedicated business track that Bruno Maag and I are organizing, and I’m especially looking forward to interesting proposals for that. The...
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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 ArticleThis week in type: WHAT IS SANS SERIF?
Comic Sans Papyrus.Nobody does type marketing better than Hoefler & Frere-Jones Co. You heard about Operator everywhere. You saw the video. You heard about it on a Monocle podcast. To paraphrase...
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Carry on or stop?
I started work on this font - partially because I thought it would be a fun style, partially to do interesting things with scripting:which was all well and good and then I discovered this:Obviously...
View ArticleTrue type font is not working on Adobe Premier (Mac Platform)
How to generate postscript(Type1) font using fontlabs 4.5 .We generated font type as true type and its not working in Adobe premier software on Mac platform
View ArticleGreek ₯ drachma symbol
Setting aside issues of present or past political and economic vicissitudes [hopefully], does anyone have any concrete information about the formation of the drachma monetary symbol (₯)?Given that it...
View ArticleQuestion Re: Pricing Structure for Exclusive Licensing on a Custom Typeface...
Hello folks!This is my first post here, so hopefully I'm in the correct sub. If not, mods, please let me know and I'll move it along. After doing a few searches I wasn't able to find quite what it is...
View ArticleTypeDrawers diversity postmortem postmortem
I printed out the entire TypeDrawers “diversity” discussion and the “postmortem” (37 three-column pages of 10½-point Freight Micro). Everyone here knows about saccadic reading, so I cannot claim to...
View ArticleExtend language support?
Do you know any good designers/foundries that specialize in extending languages for a typeface?Now... If you were going to extend your latin typeface, in what languages do you think its wise to do...
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FAQ: Vietnamese
Hi,As some suggestions at the previous thread, I creat this topic for you to ask questions regard adding characters supporting Vietnamese.A guide for Vietnamese typography written by Donny Truong:...
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Learning by doing - 'Empereur' for pointers
Hi all,I'm quite new here as I've been getting more interested in type and the mix of creative and technical challenge it offers. I have a background in artworking but as for type design I'm a mere...
View ArticleType fiction
Hello everyone,A bit bored by reading too much extremely accurate history book about type design and/or type theory, I was wondering if you knew fiction (even science-fiction) texts that talk about...
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