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/gbreve in current events
I'm seeing these ugly substitutions everywhere on the web. Is this because the type designs themselves neglected to include /gbreve, or is some character-set optimization for the web to blame?
View ArticleSearching for high resolution images of PRINTING by W. Morris printed by...
Hi, this week end I began to draw the characters of the first Village from Frederick Goudy. Attached is my first draft of the lower case glyphs (punctuation, numerals and capitals are substituted in...
View ArticleKerning for beginners
Any good resource material for kerning in FL or in general about kerning pairs but for beginners? I somewhat understand how classes work in FL to some degree but not enough to take advantage of...
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FontForge Curves Rendering
Hello guys! I am new to the type design; for about 7 months now I've been using FontForge for the function at its affordability.However, I was always bugged with its curves rendering. Here below, I...
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What should be done to do this with OpenType features?
Hi,I have designed fonts before. Persian fonts. But I had never changed too much the OpenType features except the ligatures and initial, medial,... and diacritics and stuff like that. Sorry if this is...
View ArticleFontlab VI messing with my components when generating UFOs
Hi there,I've noticed that when I use Fontlab VI to generate UFO files many components are changed by other versions of the glyphs, making the files incompatible with UFOs generated with Robofab.Why is...
View ArticleLULU bifurcated serif (based on a french biscuit...)
HelloI recently posted another type critique discussion (Cephalonia), where more info on myself and why I'm posting these typefaces can be found, so I won't repeat myself here.The attached file shows...
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Bifurcated serif, clean up and condensed version
Hi all, I have a client who wants this incomplete font polished up and missing characters designed (J,X,&, and punctuation). It will just be uppercase, no numbers. They also want a condensed...
View Articlemaking-fonts-proza-libre
http://ilovetypography.com/2016/07/14/making-fonts-proza-libre/such as awesome article
View ArticleCopyright Ownership
Is anyone aware of any instances of copyright ownership issues of fonts related to the creation/generation of fonts by open source software and/or 3rd party software? Is it possible that an open source...
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Names for graphic shapes?
I wonder what the actual names of these two graphical shapes would be. I mean terms of the sort ‘cross’, ‘triangle’ etcª.Suggestions in whatever language appreciated.
View ArticlePlease help me with this shell script
Hi there,I am trying to improve the coarse shell script I am using to use TTFAutohint in batch.Currently I am doing:#!/bin/sh for file in /Users/RamiroLaptop/Desktop/03-TTFAutohint/* do ttfautohint -v...
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Webfont vertical metrics strategies
Glyphs app has one strategy for webfonts while Google Fonts has another. Could anyone explain what's going on?
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A new transitional typeface needs a name
Over the past couple of weeks I have been working on a new transitional typeface, which I initially called “Essay”. I really liked the name at first. It reflected my idea of a font made for longform...
View ArticleOSX Yosemite issues anyone?
I am trying to gather reactions to operational functionality issues (not critiques of UI or UI Type selection) in Apples newest OS revision. I am particularly interested in type design software...
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Type Trailer for Samsung One - what others?
Just saw this... I've been seeing more and more type trailers... what other classics are there?
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 ArticleFont EULAs - “Large Volume Commercial Uses”
We (Fontspring) have had a few foundries who have submitted updates to their EULAs recently, including the following language:6.5 Large Volume Commercial Uses. Large Volume Commercial Uses include, but...
View ArticleAutomating PANOSE data
Putting accurate PANOSE classification data in a font involves doing a lot of detailed measurement of individual glyphs and then calculations based on those measurements. This is news to a lot of font...
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FontLab on iMac retina screen
This saved my sanity—but perhaps there is another way to make the type in the OpenType panel bigger?
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