Type specimen word/phrase generator?
While working on my book, I needed words or phrases that contained the most distinctive glyphs from each typeface while meeting width and language requirements, along with other criteria. Finding these...
View ArticleKindle Kids' Book Creator
I've got a customer asking if an e-book license is required for publishing a book using Kindle Kids' Book Creator. I was unable to determine from their documentation if the fonts are embedded in e-book...
View ArticleWhat's the use of a tangent point?
I think I understand how & why it's used like instances where a semicircle and a straight line join up, but is it any different to say a smooth point but with the BCP isolated? Is there something...
View ArticleA FontLab 6 intervention
I have been a avid FL user since 3.5 on Windows. I love working the the app but I realize its is showing its age. What I cannot stand is the Alpha version of FL 6. Overly complicated, abandoning the...
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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 ArticleGravers & Files
Not sure if this has been posted (did search), thought it would be nice to share on Punch Cutters Full article can be found here http://blog.fonts.com/2016/05/gravers-files/
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Odd Font Issue - Language
Hi,I have been trying to figure this out for a while now: My font (highlighted) shows up with oriental preview characters and shows up in the font menu in its own category, even though it is a standard...
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Help with greek needed
Hi, I'm designing greek for the first time and I would be grateful if someone could help me with the shapes.This is a multipurpose sans with a wide range of weights. I'm working with three masters (the...
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OpenType SVG color fonts coming to Windows 10 :)
During the keynote talk at the Microsoft Build conference, at 2:22:51 Kevin Gallo showed a slide outlining the new developer-related features of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update that will ship in the...
View ArticleFont Validator 2.0 arrived.
A few people had said that I should give it numbered versions over the course of last year. I have always thought that when I have finished filling in all the parts that Microsoft did not release, and...
View Articlelibre font test results, and hall of shame(?) list.
Jason Campbell : I hope this answers your question on the validity of using one rasterer to find problems with the another.As part of the effort leading up to Font Validator 2.0, I tested all the fonts...
View Articlesmcp/c2sc/case ligature and alternates behaviour
I’m running into some alternate glyph variants that may or may not be input manually. I can easily swap them for the non-alternative small cap in c2sc and smcp, but this method will not suffice in...
View ArticleHow to align things in fontlab?
Sorry I got more beginner questions. Is there no way to align things like we do in Ai? Ai's align tool is super powerful, I'm not seeing any of that in fontlab or is it hidden somewhere? I've looked...
View ArticleGatunesk
Hello. I'm a newbie typography enthusiast and this is my first attempt at creating a font.This typography was designed initially as academic work, to compose a fashion catalog made with Amazonian...
View ArticleNew font renderer written in Rust
Haven't gotten a chance to check this out in detail, but this project to produce a new font renderer using the Rust programming language looks very interesting:...
View ArticleDyslexie font - activism
There's a title using the Dyslexie font in manuscript – this will be published by Oxford University Press. Can I apply passive activism here… or is that too disruptive? The font license could be...
View ArticleGood words for sketching letters
Aside from the old standards—handgloves, hamburgefonts, and adhesion—what words are good for sketching letters? I find that Magenta and Magneto work well.
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...
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Persian (Arabic) typeface that works as a new alphabet!
Hello,First, I want to mention that I am a graphic designer and typographer. I was writing articles and books in the past few years about graphic and type design. Been awarded as a critic and have had...
View ArticleUC-only font with double unicodes
Dear TypeDrawers,I’m about to produce an uppercase-only font with at least two unicodes per letter: One for itself and one for the lowercase variant (e.g. A: U+0041 & U+0061). My test results have...
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