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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 Article[OTVar] Learning about OpenType variable fonts
If you've heard about variable fonts being supported in OpenType 1.8 and want to learn more about the details of how they work, I recommend these two resources:Start with John Hudson's excellent...
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...
View ArticleHow to unencode in Fontographer
Hello,I am working on a typeface in Fontographer and I have decided to use some character slots for pictograms and not the character that was intended to be in the given slot. I was advised to unencode...
View ArticleSpacing problems with connected font
I'm working on a connected script font and am trying to limit the kerning as much as possible. To make the characters connect smoothly, what I did was to use the entrance and exit strokes of the "r"...
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Bugazoo letterbat
Bugazoo is a Garamond-based letterbat, all caps font where every creature tells you it's name and kind, an artist interpretation of various cryptids from around the world. A personal project, it is...
View ArticleMultiple Master Kerning
Hello everyone!I have a question about kerning in multiple master fonts in FontLab.Lets say you have two separate .vfb fonts representing the extremes of weight.Now lets say you've kerned both...
View ArticleWe All Speed-Read [Scientific American]
The brain doesn’t sound out words it already knowshttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-all-speed-read/
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 ArticleBrowser OTS rejections for WOFF2 but not WOFF
I've been seeing Chrome and Firefox rejecting a lot of WOFF2 files lately, for OTS (OpenType Sanitiser) failures. But this is confusing, because the browser will fall back to the WOFF generated from...
View ArticleFULA vs EULA
One of best comments after my font licensing talk at Typecon was a comment that we as an industry should stop referring to what we do as selling 'fonts' and instead refer to it as selling 'font...
View ArticleModification Briefs - Best practices
Pretext:Firstly, if anyone has any real examples of font modification briefs – that they'd be happy to share (private info censored) – I would really appreciate it. I realize that this might be a big...
View ArticleWebsite Critique
Hey folks!The time has come to go live with our typography business.I've been making the website the last couple of days, and there's still stuff to do! But i would like to get a little note from you...
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Aprikos – Display sans-serif
Hello. My name is Teddy Derkert and this is my first post on Type Drawers so please let me know I'm doing anything wrong I've dabbled in type design before but this year I decided to take it more...
View ArticleOT Master...I'm missing something basic
This is embarrassing. I've had DTL's OTMaster for quite a while, but I've only just played with it. Today I wanted to edit a GSUB entry...a ligature entry points to the wrong glyph. So I open the...
View ArticleTrained to ignore license agreements
There's been a few discussions on this recently. I'm really interested in the reasons *why* licenses are ignored. How much of this is culprit of well-meaning intuition? The approach of "do not read and...
View ArticleA new stem weight distribution?
Hello all,I just had a look at @PabloImpallari's stem weight calculator, and noticed something odd (I think).So far, I've got a regular and an extrabold, but the only fields available are 'thin' and...
View Article[OTVar] Typos and editorial issues with OT 1.8
Reading the OpenType Font Variations Overview today to get my head around the new shiny, I noticed a number of oddities:Introduction:Each axis is defined by a numeric range, using 16.16 floating...
View Article[OTVar] Defining instances in the font vs. defining instances in CSS
Another consideration which may have implications on font size and licensing:Variable fonts may contain “named instances”, which correspond to the static font styles we have today: ‘Bold’, ‘Light...
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