Glyph names for new fonts
Which is the best practice for glyph names in a new font?I was following the Adobe Glyph List (AGL). When a glyph does not have a name there, it should be named as uniXXXX, where XXXX is the Unicode...
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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New type design periodical, Footnotes
https://twitter.com/LaPoliceType/status/751372140012834816Interestingly the back of the magazine is a space for people to submit typefaces to, so you can see how they look in a real print publication
View ArticleNeoletters - a monospaced, hand-drawn bitmap font
I first started making this font because I wanted a font that:- Was monospace, with correct cjk widths for all characters as per Unicode.- Was bitmap, or pixeled, in other words, did not result in...
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To become a type designer?
Hello all, been a bit of a lurker around here for a while and finally mustered the courage to ask you fine folks a question. I am a graphic designer and frustration and annoyance with my job has given...
View ArticleFont Bros VS Hasbro - Any news?
I saw this a few months ago, has anyone heard any rumblings on progress about this?http://www.lawyerherald.com/articles/29616/20160203/hasbro-sued-little-pony-font-copyright-issues.htm
View ArticleTesting consecutive kerning pairs for consistency, Vs kerning single pairs alone
Hi all,I recently spotted a kerning problem in one of my fonts, in a word having consecutive kerning pairs.At first glance I thought it was my fault only, but after looking at some fonts from the big...
View ArticleKeeping Up With Webfonts - A New Article With Stuff You Might Want To Know
There's a new article on A List Apart about how the use of fonts on the web has evolved over the past six years. It's part reportage, history, satire, and, hopefully, a jolly good read, period. Not...
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Eau de Garamond — a sans distilled from the essence of Garamond
A few years ago, I was first hit by the creative urge to make a faithful sans companion to Garamond — not just another humanist sans tipping its hat to the old master, but a sans that really was...
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FontLab: automatic anchors from base component
In FontLab, the Generate Glyph command creates compounds matching the anchors (top/bottom from the base, _top/_bottom from the added component). But it does not repeats any anchor in the new glyph. In...
View ArticleBlade Fonts generated by FontForge
Hello,Need some help please for the quality of my fonts generated by FontForge. It makes me sick that I can't get what I want.I create a new font from "Times New Roman". I just combine some characters...
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TrueType copyright notices in Windows
In ancient times, you could double-click a TTF in Windows and see the version number and copyright notice in the preview. With Windows Vista and later it only shows the version number like this:If you...
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Coolangatta
I think this is my rite-of-passage grotesque sans. I started it on a holiday; I discovered that in one of Australia's iconic surf locations, the design aesthetic had moved away from rough graffiti-like...
View Article[OTVar] Introducing OpenType variable fonts
A single font that behaves like multiple fontsAs I post this, colleagues from Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Adobe are at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw making the first public announcement of the OpenType Font...
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HT LetterSpacer
We, at Huerta Tipográfica, are happy to announce that our method and script for spacing fonts has been released at ATypI 2016 and available online at our Github repository to be used as a Glyphs...
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Unnamed Deco-esque Serif Display Type
Hi all,This is my first post here. I live and work in San Francisco, CA. I'm a software engineer by trade, but a graphic designer by education, and I find type design dovetails between these two...
View Article[OTVar] GVAR delta-popping
I'm sorry if I this is something that's already in the spec. I get the impression that the GVAR table will dealing mainly with deltas. In the overview, there's a example of how deltas could be used to...
View Article[OTVar] Naming arbitrary instances
From http://typedrawers.com/discussion/comment/22862/#Comment_22862Generating on-the-fly names for arbitrary instances within a variations space is difficult problem. What software needs in order to be...
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