New post in the series, A Graphical Guide To VTT 6.10 Light Latin Autohinting
Just in case this gets lost at the end of the other longer thread on VTT 6.10. I have started a series of blog posts.The latest is...
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FontLab Studio 4 Licence
Hi there,does anybody have a fontlab studio 4 or 3 licence he or she doesnt need anymore.I would love to purchase that.Contact me at micha.cassola [at] outlook.comThank you!
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Information about a typeface: Bruce
Hello everyone,I'm looking for any piece of information regarding 'Bruce' typeface. I'm sending some pictures of a US type catalogue from 1935. But I have an older specimen of 1838 with the same...
View ArticleGhostlines Open Beta
Hi all,Ghostlines has been kicking around for a while—it was mentioned here back in an older thread—but we're now a small team working on what will become a project management software for type...
View ArticleSlashed zero with downstroke?
I've been looking into legibility issues and some such characters which quite easily can be made explicitly unmistakable. When looking at slashed zero variants there is a chance of replacing one...
View ArticleAnybody else want to commission a open source Wordpress type tester?
I’m redesigning my online store. It will probably be Wordpress, and I might commission a developer to create a type tester plugin. Is anybody else interested in splitting development fees to make this...
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Mixing and matching italic and roman shapes in cyrillic fonts
I came across this rather interesting logo of Interfax, the biggest news agency of Russia. It’s not so much the graphic quality of the logo - which I’ll kindly leave to your judgment - but the choice...
View Article[OTVar & Math]: approximating arbitrary function to OTVar masters.
The situation is that, if, your point coordinate, or metric, is not manually maintained in a MM flavor, but calculated from something else, like a constraint solver, what is the best way to construct a...
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Dropped small-caps parens
In Yannis Haralambous' Fonts and Encodings, he gives an example of an OpenType single adjustment positioning:Â It's pedagogically a very neat example of how GPOS and OT features work: you put a simple...
View ArticleProkrastina Sans
Hi everybody, this is my first post here! I'm a Graphic Design student from Malmö Sweden who recently found that making fonts is really fun!I've have worked with this as a personal project for the last...
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New: LeMo V5
DTL LetterModeller (LeMo) is an application for the exploration and parameterisation of (certain parts of) type-design processes. It is developed by yours truly with the programming help of my longtime...
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Grayed thumbnails in glyphs, why?!
Hello,My font window in Glyphs highlights some letters with a gray color as if there is no vector in the glyph, while there is (b, c, k, u in the image) It's not causing any problem (at least so far)...
View ArticleMonospaced fonts
Hi, I'm a french graphic design student and I have to do a work about the monospaced fonts. I search on the internet and some books but I can't find solid ressources. Do you know some good websites or...
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Is this a font?
Has anyone seen this cheery fellows been made into a working font or at least a full Basic Latin alphabet?
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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Myfonts malfunctioning
Is anybody else's Bestseller page looking weird like this? Most samples are not available, and the ones that are, are under the wrong name.
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Oldstyle currencies?
I know that a lot of typedesigners include down-sized currency symbols to work with the oldstyle numerals, but it always looks a bit odd to me. I feel like it makes sense from a typedesigner's...
View Article[OTVar] OpenType minor update in preparation
We are preparing a minor update to the OpenType spec that will appear soon. For the most part, this will provide clarifications or correction of errors in describing the new table formats used for...
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Underware releases "Zeitung" family with Variable Font + Adobe CC plugin
http://www.underware.nl/fonts/zeitung/features/Flex/ is interesting - a Adobe CC plugin to make Variable Fonts 'work today' The http://www.underware.nl homepage is also great
View ArticleFonts.com Promo - Dwiggins Fact Check
This may be petty of me, but I feel compelled to publicly set the record straight regarding an error in the W.A. Dwiggins narrative relayed in a Fonts.com email promo that went out yesterday. (If...
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