Weird Naming Glitch
After finishing a bold version of a font I noticed this. In windows 7 the font name inside of the fonts folder does this:Install Regular version and the name looks normal:Name Name NameInstall Bold...
View ArticleLibreOffice 5.3.0 adds OpenType Layout feature support
LibreOffice 5.3.0 is a new version of the free office suite for Windows, macOS and Linux. Among its many new features is a fully-revamped text engine which uses HarfBuzz and supports both automatic and...
View ArticleScribus 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/
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An interesting logotype
I’ve never seen this before.Ligatures/logotypes for:period_quotedblrightandcomma_quotedblrightFrom the back of a 1959 record sleeve. (Capitol Records, California)
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Combining italic with strait verticles ?
Recently I started examining Nina Stössingers typeface Nordvest italic and I couldn't help but to fall in love. I notice things like in the n how she combines what looks like two styles into one so...
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MakeOTF error in Glyphs
Hey,OT features have been working fine for several months. Now I was just editing some glyphs (without changing anything in the features) and noticed this error. I have an older version with exactly...
View ArticleOblique and Italic in same family
I want to give my next typefamily an Oblique (manually perfected, mind you), and an Italic (more cursive-like) counterpart.SS01 is already taken by some other feature, so I would have to put the...
View ArticlePetite Caps, anyone?
When I discovered there is something like Petite Caps within OT features, I thought it would be widely adopted. Petite Caps may be very useful to handle accronyms and camel words, besides adding...
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Superior/superscript, inferior/subscript and ordinals
tl;dr What factors (i.e. intended use, design style, etc) inform the design of these glyphs and are there any standards?⁂ ⁂ ⁂Long version (my apologies in advance for the length! Footnotes in the next...
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Merchant of Alphabets
A few years ago (due to my research for "Linotype: The Film) I came across the book "Merchant of Alphabets" by Reginald Orcutt. It is a fascinating book published in 1945 about Orcutt's work and...
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'Modernist' solutions for the ogonek
Curious to know what are some acceptable designs to readers of -ogonek glyphs:I.e. are these even ok:
View ArticleModular 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 ArticleFutura and Avant Garde
Hello everyone,I am new in this forum and it looks very interesting and a good way to learn from lovers/professional of this field.In the company where I work, we use Futura font as the institutional...
View ArticleBooks About Type Design and Founding in the United States of America
This is the first in a series of bibliography threads I plan to start. I think having ongoing lists with multiple contributors and discussion on a forum makes more sense than top ten lists or a...
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Freitag — toying around with a geometric display sans
So I've had this inexplicable urge to start drawing one of the most redundant fonts imaginable — a geometric display sans. In particular, I thought I'd try to make it stand out from the crowd with some...
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Articles or sources on letter widths
Hello,Looking for articles on construction of letter widths.Example E, F, L share the same width.
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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...
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Stroked vectors in FontLab Studio 6
I'm starting a typeface with a neon light effect in FontLab Studio 6. It's something I've done before with Ampacity and Electric. When I made those fonts, I wasted a lot of time manually cleaning up...
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Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Are there any alternative solutions to Wikihiero to create character subdivisions (e.g. 1 glyph below another glyph)? The unicode values are being input using r12a Egyptian hieroglyph character picker,...
View ArticleIs Anyone Designing Colour Fonts?
I added some coloured Stylistic Alternates for fancy drop capitals to some of my fonts, just because I can using FontCreator from High-Logic, but I don't currently have any application that can support...
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