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‘Grand Cru Classés’ sprouting from Antwerp soil
In the exquisite setting of the Museum Plantin-Moretus the Inside/Outside exhibition, organized by the Plantin Institute of Typography, was opened on Saturday 17 May 2014. The exhibition comprises work...
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[OTVar] Changing tracking/HVAR
I’m not sure if I understand all of the involved parts/tables correctly yet, thus my question.Is it possible to build an axis that adjusts the tracking of a font by just using the HVAR table?I have...
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Too much overshoot?
While in 2017 1 & 7 look shorter than 2 & 0, I'm not so sure about in 010101 and 272727. What do you say? Should I overshoot a little less? (It's a display type, so the size here is within the...
View ArticlePattern Font Problem
I'm designing an ornamental font for creating patterns. Every glyph is a tile that when repeated creates a pattern.I've set the UPM at 1000 and generated a CFF-flavored OTF file.When I use it in MS...
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New type design periodical, Footnotes
https://twitter.com/LaPoliceType/status/751372140012834816Interestingly the back of the magazine is a space for people to submit typefaces to, so you can see how they look in a real print publication
View ArticleP4 grotesque - first typeface
Hi everyone! First of all I want to thank you because this forum has been really helpful for me to find a method to the critique of a typeface, and gave me the motivation needed to start design this...
View ArticleMarking Copies of Fonts
Suppose a foundry marks each copy of the fonts it ships to clients with some unique key buried somewhere in the metadata, such that if an illegal copy is found, it's possible to trace its source.Have...
View ArticleOT Sub Prioritisation (Need Help)
I'm working on a monospaced, and playing around with ligatures for i_i, i_l, l_i, and l_l.I'm trying to set it up so that the sequence i l l becomes i l_l, not i_l l.The ordering of my substitution...
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[OTVar] Spacing axis
Recently I proposed to Microsoft the registration of a ‘Spacing axis’ in OpenType Font Variations. Tracking and CSS letterspacing are highly primitive mechanisms and they mess up spacing (for instance...
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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Quador – a squarish serif
Hello, I’m working on a serif display-font, it has constructed elements of a slab serif, but also some of the Old Style genre. The idea is, to design the characters more squarish – I like the...
View ArticleCustom design contracts
All, I just wanted to first off say thank you to everyone. I have learned so much from all of you. Thank you all for sharing your insights on all aspects of being type designers.As I am being asked...
View ArticleHow do you inspect a UFO file?
In Finder I see only the .ufo file, and I'm wondering how to inspect or open a UFO in order to access the contents as listed on Unified Font Object website.To clarify my goal at the moment, I'm trying...
View ArticleThe vinyl records of font formats
Someone told me a long time ago that Windows PostScript is the vinyl records of font formats. It has PostScript curves which are higher fidelity than TrueType curves for certain shapes the format...
View Article[OTVar] hidden axis flag
One thing that was obvious at the Typo Labs conference was that there isn't any consensus yet as to what the right UI should be for selecting instances of variable fonts, though there a couple of...
View ArticleA head.indexToLocFormat = 2 for TTCs with >65535 glyphs?
Considerations are:There are seldom font would directly use >65535 glyphs, but a family would.If a font family is distributed in a TTC then we usually merge the GLYF table to share glyphs.So if the...
View ArticleA better "version" of an existing typeface
There's this typeface. It's quite original, but not exactly one of a kind.I like it very much.But some things about it bother me. Some glyphs, the finish, etc.I'm thinking of "remaking" it, by which I...
View ArticleResearch into whether Typography Techniques are still relevant in digital design
HI I am a 20 year+ self taught graphic designer who is studying a Master of Design - as part of the course I am doing a research project on Typography and its relevance in website/digital design and...
View ArticleUC-only font with double unicodes
Dear TypeDrawers,I’m about to produce an uppercase-only font with at least two unicodes per letter: One for itself and one for the lowercase variant (e.g. A: U+0041 & U+0061). My test results have...
View ArticleM&S house typeface
Does anyone know who designed M&S's branding typeface? Pretty sure it's custom, but can't find references to it anywhere. Thanks in advance.
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