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Roijer
"Roijer" started as a handmade lettering logotype designed for "Peter Röijer" vintage perfume brand. Started now as a titling serif typeface. The main idea is create unconventional uppercase groups as...
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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...
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Windows Control Panel fields: “Designed For”, “Category” and “Manufacturer”
I am trying to make these fields displayed in the Control Panel, but I have absolutely no clue about them.Adobe's Source Sans Pro does not have them either. How to get them work?
View ArticleGrotesque design for critiquing
Hello All,I've been working on a grotesque-inspired typeface design and am looking for feedback on the overall quality and any errors I may have overlooked. Attached are two specimens for your perusal,...
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Odd font rendering issue/puzzel
The screen caps I’ve uploaded here are from font that’s one of a layered font family I am making. The images are size-as and show a strange rendering oddity that only happens to the letters N, plus...
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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 ArticleSmall Caps Practice
Is there any precedence when typesetting small caps to use standard size non-small caps specific punctuation, at least with period, colon, and quotation marks? As a user is it best to have the option...
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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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Ghostlight
Hi!I'm a young designer from Montreal and I'm currently in the process of applying as a foundry to MyFonts and I'd like to hear the opinion of more experienced type designers on at least one of the...
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 ArticleOn counting Points
I've only been here about two weeks, and counting Points is not a major issue, but:It bothers me that Disagree deducts from your Points. You can't discuss openly without disagreeing with somebody, and...
View ArticleNew Feature—Reactions
Users now have buttons to react to posts. A post can be flagged for moderation. Users can also mark posts as off topic, like posts, agree, and disagree.
View ArticleOEM Licensing and What It Means to You: An Interview with Stuart Sandler of...
Hello everyone,TypeThursday this week chatted with Stuart Sandler of Font Bros. We discussed what is an OEM license, managing relationships with your licensees, and considerations when drafting...
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Eurabic
At the ATypI Reykjavik conference in 2011 Thomas Milo gave talk on ‘The role of Dutch Arabic Typography in Middle Eastern Printing’. It was there that I heard him using the term ‘Eurabic’ for Arabic...
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Figures
Hi all,I designed these figures for a Hebrew typeface I'm working on.They're supposed to look classic and neutral.As Hebrew letters are more square-shaped than Latin ones, the figures are a tiny bit...
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http://www.fontbureau.com is now redirecting to http://www.typenetwork.com
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New Google Fonts + Bungee, Scope One, Space Mono
https://fonts.google.com has just launched, and include many of the multi-script projects developed in the last 18 months, plus a 3 new projects that haven't been public until...
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Paramond — an extreme display serif
As I posted on Typophile, this Monday I had a sudden impulse to doodle an exaggerated light, contrasted, space-taking Garalde with impossibly tiny counters, long extenders and no respect for long...
View ArticleFlickr Homecoming + Proposal
Some great news, and a proposal:Possibly thanks to a squeaky-wheel tweet that broke the camel's back, after a ~3-year absence, the singularly–typographically-useful Notes feature in Flickr is back! You...
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