Modular type: your help finding good examples needed
I’ve begun a project—I hope, eventually, a book—on the history and significance of modular lettering and typefaces. I have some ideas and hypotheses, but rather than share those up front—since I could...
View ArticlePhoto dumping for Daily Type Specimen
I need to find somewhere to dump the original files for Daily Type Specimen. Given the way things have been going with Yahoo I’m not sure that Tumblr and/or Flickr will be around in the long term. I’d...
View ArticleSuggestion: Stop pre-blocking users. Trust flagging and moderaters.
I have discussed this a while back directly with @Stephen Coles, who was unsure about changing the policy for “existing members and the expectations they had when they dedicated themselves to the...
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Technical Trivial Facts (.ttf)
In 1964 someone found out that it was possible to directly draw on the IBM 2250 Graphics Display Unit with a morsel of removable chalk mounted on the end of a piece of wood, which was secured to a...
View Article"Dawson Grotesque" Please critique
I started designing type 2 years ago, and have yet to release a typeface to any foundry or distributor, I want this typeface to become well used and distributed so before I submit to a foundry or...
View ArticleMS Word — non-responding ligatures switch
My font, a connected blackletter, has a complex system of features which seem to mess up MS Word 2016 on Windows 10. It uses, among others, the ss01-..., liga and dlig features. I can switch liga and...
View ArticleEmojis in Indic scripts
Dear All,Can any one suggest how can we add Emojis along with Indic script and how do i write code for this in Volt. If any one can help me out in this subject that will be a great helpreggardsManoj
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The Humpty A
All right! Stop whatcha doin', cause I'm about to ruin the image and the style that ya used to. In a display typeface, if my A is of the humpty variety, what should I do with my Alpha, Lambda and...
View ArticleIs there way to define anchor point while defining class in FL5?
markClass [gravecomb acutecomb circumflexcomb] <anchor 0 500> @MARK_TOP_CENTER; The example is above which is part of this. I can't seem to put all those in a single opentype feature as FL5...
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Multy lingual harmonisation
I'm adding Latin script to a newly designed Hebrew font family.Latin and Hebrew scripts are very different by nature and it is quite an interesting harmonising challenge.It is meant to be a clean...
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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...
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Ornamental Initials
Hello,I have been drawing ornaments for years and decided to make a font similar to my previous project Floralis, but this time based on a personal face and not an existing font (and more mature I...
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Automatic generation of large-scale handwriting fonts via style learning...
Generating personal handwriting fonts with large amounts of characters is a boring and time-consuming task. Take Chinese fonts as an example, the official standard GB18030-2000 for commercial font...
View ArticleHow do I use kreska accents?
I want to do some Polish typography, but I can't get the kreska accents to appear. I normally add a localized language feature to my own typefaces to replace acute with kreska when Polish is selected,...
View ArticleFonts similar to Tahoma
I have a loan document that was created in November 1991 by an attorney using an early Apple or McIntosh computer, probably a Mac SE. The computer is long gone and my attorney passed away in 2006. I...
View ArticleFonts similar to Tahoma before 1991
I have a loan document that was created in November 1991 by an attorney using an early Apple or McIntosh computer, probably a Mac SE. The computer is long gone and my attorney passed away in 2006. I...
View ArticleNot too expansive printer for testing font printing
Hi,I dont know if this is the good section where to write this messages.Has somebody here some experience about a not too expansive printer for testing my fonts printing ?And perhaps a question about...
View ArticleSimple script: test in batch if all tabular and fixed width values are correct
Hi there,Here is another simple script I wrote for Fontlab (it should also work in Robofont I think) to test if all fixed width glyphs have the right value in all open font. You can easily adapt it to...
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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...
View ArticleHow can I publish my font to Google Fonts?
You know, I made this, but there I cannot find the way to publish it.
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