Quote selected text and cite?
I thought it was possible to select text and click "Quote" with a cite but is that not longer available. Or was it never available…?This may be a good addon...
View ArticleTypeDrawers Changelog
In the spirit of transparency, tangible site changes will be documented here whenever possible. Feedback is welcome, but please post a new discussion about the specific topic in Suggestions and Bug...
View ArticleBroken: Mentioning usernames that have spaces
When you type an “@” you get a popup menu with user suggestions. After selecting a user, the mention is written thusly: @Stephen Coles. This syntax doesn’t work. So, this is just a note that I am aware...
View ArticleRobofont Harmonizer
Is there any comparable extension that does what RMX Tools Harmonizer does for Robofont? I'm looking to integrate Robofont into my workflow soon and it's the one macro from Fontlab that doesn't seem to...
View ArticleFontForge Harmonizer?
Rather than hijack this thread ("Robofont Harmonizer"), I decided to spawn another, albeit highly similar, one. RMX Harmonizer gets an awful lot of praise and its results are fscking fabulous, but it's...
View ArticleQuechua Ø
In researching the required character set for Quechua, @Frode Bo Helland and I have come across a very weird ‘requirement’ on Wikipedia: the Ø is supposedly used in loan words. In this current version,...
View ArticleTeaching type design online.
FontArk is looking for type design teachers, to teach all levels of type design to small-medium groups of designers - Online!Fontark is a fresh and sophisticated browser-based type design platform,...
View ArticleAdobe World Ready Composer and ೊ
Does anybody know if Adobe’s World Ready Composer is supposed to replace <consonant> + <ೊ> with <consonant><ೆ><ೂ>? For example, I have:sub knDA knmE by knDE;sub knDA knmO...
View ArticleCreating opentype font in FontLab 5
I have basic setup done for working with Illustrator to bring in glyphs, but still unsure of what else I need to setup.1. Let say, I want to create an Opentype Pro font, what are the things I need to...
View ArticleTypeDrawers & typography on a handheld device
I'm sure most of you opt to catch up on your laptops, but following the recent diversity thread had me using my phone more frequently and I found the reading experience a bit cramped. For me when text...
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My First Font: SILE Sans
Hello all. I'm very new to type design - I attended the Granshan 2015 conference to give a presentation about the SILE typesetting software and met a load of lovely and interesting people (some of whom...
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Is this a 'w' ?
I know that I have seen serif italic faces with a lc 'w' that looks like across between an 'n' and a 'v'. But what faces have this w? Other than a few blackletters, I don't know of a single one. Where...
View ArticleWindows doesn't use bitmaps embedded in .TTF/.OTF (FontForge)
I'm trying to add embedded bitmaps to my outline (vector) font. It's essentially a 'pixelfont' that is supposed to have a 1:1 "pixel perfect" representation at a size of 12px (which is 9pt, on my...
View ArticleSuggestion: add a Typography category
I miss a space to discuss things not related to type design, but rather type use. Some of the best threads on Typophile started with a typographic challenge.
View ArticleR.I.P.
So, /napostrophe is not needed, after all. Could we (reasonably safely) get rid of some more junk in our character sets?
View ArticleWhy are Kannada numerals larger than letters?
Why are Kannada numerals larger than letters? Kannada has no uppercase to harmonize with, and they all come from the same writing system. So I don’t understand why there’s a height difference?
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...
View ArticleCyrillic italics vs. obliques
When designing Cyrillic, some of the italics can take vastly different forms.https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyrillic-italics-nonitalics.pngBut in some Cyrillic designs, the italics are oblique...
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Adrian Frutiger (24 May 1928 – 12 September 2015)
The legendary Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger passed away today, on 12 September 2015, at the age of 87. Frutiger had influenced the 20th century’s European and world typography like no other,...
View ArticleAccents part of the 2048/1000 limit?
Saw this on twitter today and thought I would ask about it on here because I've never got a clear answer: Type designers: How do you decide the size of your type on the "body"? Do you just use the full...
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