Template needs modification to unbreak links and mark up paragraphs correctly
When one uses the visual editor, as everyone but me does (even I use it most of the time), the Vanilla software errantly includes these attributes inside <A> (for links): rel="nofollow"...
View ArticleCarving with Light and Shadow: An Interview with Stone Carver Matthew Johnson
Hey everyone!This week, TypeThursday interviewed stone carver Matthew Johnson. We talked about his process and what he is thinking about when stone carving letters.You can read the interview on...
View ArticleGoogle Summer of Code, recruiting students to work on Font Validator
This can probably go under job posting/education also... Anyway...This year's Google Summer of Code is starting to accept student application in a week or two. For those who are unfamiliar with it,...
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Reverse + Regular Italics [at the same time]
Hi all,At Face Forward I saw Jo De Baerdemaeker’s excellent presentation on reverse italics, during which he showed a slide containing an example of a cross between a regular and a reverse italic at...
View ArticleBest Linux distro for type tool
I’ve given up on running F/OSS software and compiling software on Mac OS. It’s just not worth the dependency hell issues I run into and weird conflicts that come up when I start mixing brew, mac ports,...
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
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Galavant logo
Hi guys,I do not know much about licensing so I was hoping someone could help me in this area. ABC is using a font of mine called Desire for their tv show Galavant. Some of the letters are straight...
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...
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another day, another sad logo (for the Ontario Conservative party)
Ontario Conservative party's new logo,
View ArticleOn creating an SVG-in-OpenType font
I helped Dutch typographer Novo Typo to convert their Bixa font to a color version. I chose the SVG-in-OpenType format and decided to see how "web worthy" I could make such a font, meaning it had to be...
View ArticleMetricsMachine crashes groups after redacting the UFO
I heard its a regular thing with MM (I have a 4.0.6). TRying to save after editing and after reopenning theres 0 groups all of not just added gone. Anyone worked that thing out?
View ArticleShould all-cap tonos suppression be supported in OpenType?
Gerry Leonidas's page says tonos needs to be suppressed in all-cap setting.http://leonidas.org/greek-type-design/case-conversion-for-monotonic-greek/While this itself is not new to me, I haven't...
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I started work on a 19th century French Didot style font
Hello. I'm a newbie typography enthusiast and this is my first attempt at creating a font.I'm creating it based roughly on scans from 19th century books printed by Didot. I've been eyeballing the...
View Article2016 SOTA Catalyst Award Call for Entries
The Society of Typographic Aficionados is pleased to announce the seventh annual SOTA Catalyst Award. The award is targeted at young people who have created original work in type design, type history,...
View ArticleBest practice & techniques for converting scans to vectors
My inked drawings on mylar or paper (3-6 inch cap height) are scanned at 300 ppi. I bring the scans into Adobe Illustrator CC and use “Image Trace—Make & Expand” to convert my scanned artwork to...
View ArticleFont without a counter-/counting pixel
A potential client is requesting one of my old fonts “without a counter-/counting pixel”. As I have grown quite rusty with font-making, I was wondering what this means exactly, and what software is...
View ArticleTrueType bytecode interpretation, ClearType: anything critical happening...
Hey everyone,so I'm currently working on FreeType's bytecode interpreter to shuffle it into "ClearType mode" so to speak. I hope someone deeply knowledgeable about or experienced with TrueType hinting...
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“Procedural” design software concept?
Just a concept: Is it a good idea to create a “procedural” type design software: every distinct glyph has a "construction workflow" so the data quntity a type designer have to maintain can be minimized?
View ArticleRobofab Installation MacOS 10.11.3
Hello! I'm having trouble on installing Robofab and packages (Vanilla, DialogKit, FontTools). I'm using FontLab 5.1.5.Just wondering if someone had this problem before, what could I try to do.
View ArticleHow skeleton based type design could shake up digital type design workflows
The process by which we design type has not changed significantly since Fontographer has introduced into the market. Today, there are many experiments trying to breathe new life into the type design...
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