Scribus to support OpentType
Scribus, the open source publishing program, will soon support OpenType. No details, though. https://www.scribus.net/new-text-layout-engine-with-full-opentype-support/
View ArticleWeird Windows 10 font issue: installs fine, previews fine, defaults to Arial...
Hi all –Is Windows 10 goofy with TTFs in some way? I am testing out a font I hinted but I'm getting a wacky issue. The font installs fine. It looks correct in the small preview of an Explorer window of...
View ArticleCopy and scale uppercase kerning to small caps with a script
One more simple Robofab script to copy and scale uppercase kerning to small caps. With the 'factor' variable you can decide how much the kerning should be reduced to better fit small caps.#FLM: ReType...
View ArticleFun type draft
I have started this typeface yesterday, to clear up my mind a bit. At the beginning I thought about making only the upper case set but then decided to see how it goes with a relatively standard lower...
View ArticleOpenType labels in software
I understand that Adobe products, in particular Photoshop, now have the ability to display custom name for style sets. So for example, instead of Style Set One, you could have "Art Deco Alternates" or...
View ArticleThe Value of a Font Buyout
I have a question regarding the value of a copyright buyout for a custom font. This subject has come up earlier on Typedrawers, but this case is a bit different. Here is the situation: I made a set of...
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Start Grotesque
Hi everyoneWe are two young graphic designers from Switzerland that are obsessed with type. We just started designing our first typeface and our biggest problem is that we don’t really have anyone...
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[OTVar] Introducing Amstelvar
Google Fonts has commissioned a new variable font project, a serif dubbed "Amstelvar," from Font Bureau. Led by the experience and insight of the Font Bureau co-founder David Berlow, who worked...
View ArticleTextured Type
I would like to add some texture to some of my existing brush fonts. I'm wondering how designers deal with the beziers in this case. It's a lot of points and finding things like overlaps and twists is...
View ArticleIntellectual Property Licensing Suits - A question for Type Designers/Lawyers
Here's a question a few out there might be wondering about:I do not control my licensing; that is handled by distributors. (Myfonts, fonts.com, HypeforType, etc.) As you may know, these distributors do...
View ArticleOut of print books
Hello type designers, show me a sign though – I was book hunting trying to find: The stroke: theory of writing Gerrit Noordzij Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces...
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Sailboat – a grotesque
I began designing this typeface (my first) last November, and would really like to get some critiques by people who are more experienced. My only type education is Designing Type by Karen Cheng, which...
View ArticleScript to generate kerning strings for MetricsMachine
Hi there,I love using MetricsMachine, but I've never liked the fact I can't use my Fontlab kerning text files. Metrics machine uses 2 different kind of kerning text files: one for single pairs and...
View ArticleUsing emoji cuts my post off
I tried to add some emoji and when I press 'Post', it gets cut off after the emoji?
View ArticleTrueType-based fonts and post table version 3.0
A word of warning ...It’s really tempting to switch the post table version to 3.0, which then doesn’t store any glyph names in the font, saving file size especially for web fonts.But for TrueType-based...
View ArticleType Network
http://www.fontbureau.com is now redirecting to http://www.typenetwork.com
View ArticleMonotoype Award - Grant for Reading MATD - anyone here been successful?
I am looking into doing the MATD at Reading though cannot afford it, I was wondering if anyone here has had success in getting the grant from Monotype and what you had to do to make it successful? Any...
View ArticleMyFonts and families
Have any of you with families on myFonts noticed a drastic reduction in sales since Monotype started pushing their subscription service? Before they took over my family sales were pretty healthy, now...
View ArticleOpenType 1.8.1 errata
Last week, we posted an erratum (for both OT1.8 and OT1.8.1) regarding a serious technical error in the 'avar' chapter: a reserved uint16 field has been added to the version 1.0 header before the...
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...
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