Option to hide annoying threads?
Some old threads just drone on and on. It would be nice to be able to hide them, so they stop popping up all the time.
View ArticleWebpage to check language coverage of a given character set?
Hi there,I need to generate a list of the languages supported by the characters sets/encodings I use in my fonts. Can you recommend a webpage or resource that would tell me on exactly which languages...
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A new type publishing brand
For the past few months I have been working on my various type design projects to ramp them up for a release under my own label. I did a thorough brainstorming session over the weekend and came up with...
View ArticleWidth & weight relationships
It seems that the general rule is to widen a typeface as it gets bolder, is this standard practice? Or can you think of specific typefaces that keep the same width from light to bold without shifting...
View ArticleGeranium : inspired from Venetians
Hi,This is my first post here. I am not professional typedrawer nor I have the ambition to become that. I did my career in horticulture and botany, with the rose and its history and botany as a...
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 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...
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...
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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...
View ArticleSimple Kerning Pairs builder helper tool
A little tool that helps building glyphs pairs for kerning and testing documents.http://www.impallari.com/testing/pairs.phpIt has 3 input boxes, where you can enter space separated list of glyphs-...
View ArticleWebfont formats for self hosting
We are starting to offer webfonts from our website for self hosting. Our plan is to supply css based URI data in WOFF and WOFF2 formats (no TTF's, OTF's, SVG's or EOT's). The advantages are: less data...
View ArticleAlignment Zones
Is there any reason for or against designating vertical alignment zones with oldstyle figures or small caps that exceed x-height?
View ArticleSans-Serif For Text
Does anyone have any particular sans-serif text faces that they think are great for reading?I've seen Scala Sans in print before and thought it worked really well. I know I'm generalizing here, but...
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My first typeface
Hello everyoneI am Valentino from Florence and I starded studying Type design in late 2015 (november - december).I am now working on my first typeface (wich does not have a name yet), I tried to create...
View ArticleuniXXXXXXXX names
I was under the impression glyphs named this way (“uni”+first Unicode value+second Unicode value) would produce two separate glyphs in the underlying data stream. (Similar to how typing a ß,...
View ArticleMaths glyphs in a non-maths font?
ƒ~∞∫Ω∆∏∑√µ∂◊|¦These are some glyphs in Adobe Latin 3, particularly math-related, which I don't know the context of their uses and have had to follow the example of other fonts. I've done too much...
View ArticleFontspring
I've been invited to join Fontspring as a foundry. The conditions sound good, but I'm not good with license questions and the likes.Can you recommend joining Fontspring? Are there any strings attached?...
View ArticleWarnings when generating OT-font ...
Hi TypeDrawers,Unfortunately there are some kerning problems when I generate my Opentype-files ...I have clean up my kerning-pairs etc., and when I generate a OT-file,some pairs never occurs when I...
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