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My First Font: SILE Sans
Hello all. I'm very new to type design - I attended the Granshan 2015 conference to give a presentation about the SILE typesetting software and met a load of lovely and interesting people (some of whom...
View ArticleMicrosoft Font Validator gains python scripting ability, and...
The latest FontVal [1] command line tool gains the ability to run simple python scripts - it treats *.py arguments as such. There are 6 scripts in the 'scripting-examples' directory. This includes a...
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TYPO Labs 2016 Berlin, May 10-11
This year, the annual highlight of European graphic design conferences, TYPO Berlin, gets a very special prelude for type designers and font makers: TYPO Labs. If you’d like to know more about complex...
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Fifth Century Athenian letter forms
edited: For an academic title "Greek Historical Inscriptions", a few questions on best practice / font recommendations:Example form:1) Encoding / image: Is it better to encode as unicode or insert...
View ArticleWhat is the best way to handle the Navajo iogonekacute?
I take it the dot should go (?), so it should be assembled from a dotless i, with combining acute and ogonek. All examples I’ve seen in text were iogonek + combining acute, with tittle and acute. Is...
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]...
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Board logo
Hi guys, new to the forum but not to type design. I went trough my old files and came across something that could be used as a logo for the forum. Little reworking and voila:What do you think?
View ArticleChoosing a book on the quality of it's typography, online,
When I buy an old book (usually from ebay or Amazon Marketplace) I'd like to be able select one based on the quality of the tyography, but of course this is impossible if you can see a page, as is...
View ArticleVTT 6 + Windows 10 feels twitchy and weird
Anyone else finding that their muscle memory is making them a little uncomfortable? I swear that VTT's scroll-to-zoom is now reversed and I can't find a single mouse setting in Windows 10 that feels...
View ArticleIsn't the handle extended way too much here?
In this [video link] right around 00:39 the handle is extended way more than its optimal. Shouldn't there actually be an additional node for the rounded corner like I've circled in this [link] instead...
View ArticleMapping non-unicode fonts
Our authors sometimes use non-unicode fonts. Example texts include Greek, Ancient Syriac, Old Slavonic, Coptic, transliterations etc. The unicode conversion process has been relatively straight...
View ArticleApple hiring font people in California
Apple is hiring font people in Santa Clara, California: 1. Font Automation / Tools Engineer, a software developer to work on fonts- and text-related issues:...
View ArticleDfr in blackletter fonts
What did the ‘Dfr’ bit stand for in the names of digital blackletter fonts? Was that a reference to a special font layout? Please remind me. Thanks in advance, Maxim
View ArticleExport old-style non-OpenType "kern" table
In FontLab, under Options/Generating OpenType & TrueType/Kerning there's an option for Export old-style non-OpenType "kern" table. In the past, this was necessary because so few applications...
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fixed font alignment problem: is it the font or the program?
Hello everybody,I just came here upon suggestion of a friend in another forum, and I'm looking to understand what's goin on with my custom font...Here's what happens:I just made by trial-and-error a...
View ArticleMouse issues in Fontlab
Up until recently I've been using a Wacom Intuos 3 on my Mac in Fontlab. Recently the mouse became hypersensitive making it difficult to work with. Since Wacom stopped making tablets with a mouse I've...
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Vuit Grotesk, a project to learn typeface design
Hello,My name is Matthieu Salvaggio, I'm a graphic design student at the ESAD of Valence (France).I've always been interested in Typeface design. Some months ago (January) I decided to give it a try, a...
View ArticleBehavior of attached PDFs
My preference is that attached PDFs open in a browser window, rather than being prompted to download them (as seems to be the current default).If I choose to examine a document in more detail, or want...
View ArticleKerning Service
Hello TypeDrawers mates,Do somebody know a serious company that offer professional kerning service to type designers?Thank you in advance
View ArticleAlternatives to Creative Suite for testing fonts.
I’m probably to cancel my Adobe Creative Suite subscription before my account renews for another year in June. I may cut back to a single application subscription for Indesign. But I don’t plan to do...
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