Unicode 9.0.0
(sorry, posted in the wrong section)It's still a few days before Unicode 9.0.0 but not too early to start talking about all the new goodies.I noticed Scope One has the bitcoin symbol ₿ maybe 20B4?. Has...
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...
View ArticleThe legend of Eisenhower’s Skinny 'S'
Via Type Culture's Facebook page: Times' Eisenhower's skinny 'S' and the story of how they dealt with a longish name when it started showing up in headlines.Interesting read.
View ArticleMyFonts: Web, Epub, Server etcª license business – worth doing?
Is it worth the trouble of doing the additional contracting work?Does it pay off reasonably?– Any known legal issues?Any thoughts appreciated!
View ArticleSlowPrint Letterpress Residency Studio at Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum
Hello, Type Friends and Colleagues!I'm very pleased that I've been invited to relocate Slow Print into the heart of the Hamilton Museum in Two Rivers!Please see the full announcement here:...
View ArticleTwo-dot italic ellipsis
Why… do that? PS. Regular ellipsis is a happy 3-dotted chap… yay!PPS. Bold ellipsis is equally consistent… in its triad. Hurrah!
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Curvature Combs
I'm curious about this as a visualisation tool. Currently it's available in Glyphs and Robofont with Yanone's Speedpunk plugin and also natively in Fontlab 6.What are your experiences with it? Has it...
View ArticleCyrillic lowercase shha (һ) - ascending vs non-ascending
Just casting about, I am seeing what seems like a fairly even distribution of interpretations of the Cyrillic lowercase shha (һ) U+04BB in fonts that support extended Cyrillic — some are basically a...
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Typographics 2016 Live Stream
Hello All,Hope is well ... The nice folks at Typographics have made the event lived streamed and can be viewed here.You can go back and catch up on any missed.Schedule can be found here (remember your...
View ArticleOut of print books
Hello type designers, show me a sign though – I was book hunting trying to find: The stroke: theory of writing Gerrit Noordzij Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces...
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Online books & resources
For those who struggle to find books in print relating to designing type. I have came across some out of print books, thought might be worth sharing. Some are extracts some in full.[links removed by...
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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?
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sneekpi type work in progress
Hello, I'm a 3rd year student of graphic design, but I learn type design by myself. The passion started after a week-long workshops with Martin Majoor during my first year of studies.I'd like to get...
View ArticleRecommended Type Design and Typography Books
I've read through the below books in the first list here and enjoyed them all, with The Elements of Typographic Style possibly my favorite. Are there any in the second list that would be considered...
View ArticleAnnouncing protoType – a curated competition & exhibition
SOTA has launched protoType, a competition and forthcoming TypeCon exhibition of speculative typeface design.prototype.typegallery.comSee the full rules. Highlights:• No eligibility timeframe. Even...
View ArticleAscender & descenders in Latin type design
The technique of determining ascenders & descenders has been discussed recently in font critiques. I think it deserves it's own discussion.@Hrant H. Papazian mentioned his technique here.Here's how...
View ArticleFontlab Kern Feature
I'm generating a .otf font from FontLab with a MetricsMachine .fea file I've imported. It works in the OpenType Preview panel as a feature, works fine, all kerning is present but when I generate an...
View ArticleThe Eternal Letter: the Book and the Event
I am pleased to announce the publication of The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital, edited by Paul Shaw and published by The MIT Press. It is the first in an annual series...
View ArticleType/Font identification
Is there or plans to be a type/font identification category ?, as this was helpful back in the Typophile days.
View ArticleWhy does the horizontal stroke of the oldstyle 4 sit slightly above the...
In many typefaces with old style numerals, the horizontal of the 4 is not on baseline, but just a tad above . Is there any historical reason for this?
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