Out 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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Hammer for counterpunching: How many kilos?
I just realised none of my hammers is heavy enough to leave a mark when I am counterpunching.Does anybody know the weight of the hammer I should buy? Looking at Stan's one it looks like something...
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‹y› with a clear baseline
When the rightward stroke of the ‹y› visibly lands on the baseline it can create the appearance of a notch. This is often present in Erik Spiekermann’s typefaces and in some of Nebiolo’s typefaces,...
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New: LeMo V5
DTL LetterModeller (LeMo) is an application for the exploration and parameterisation of (certain parts of) type-design processes. It is developed by yours truly with the programming help of my longtime...
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Punchcutting tools: Punching and Counterpunching Fixtures
In this post I'll show just fixtures for holding punch blanks and counterpunches for counterpunching. Fixtures for punching matrices will follow in another posting. It would also be worth collecting...
View ArticleProofing
I'm working on a essay and/or talk about proofing and revising in the type design process. If you're interested in talking about your process or sharing images, please get in touch with me.
View ArticleKerning the Space to Glyph and Glyph to Spaces
Is it common to kern letters agains spaces and vice versa?Depending on the nature of the glyph word spaces can vary optically.I suppose the problem is most visible in tripplets, which i have no...
View ArticleKerning and Nick Shinn's mashed potatoes preference
RE:http://typedrawers.com/discussion/2198/kerning-the-space-to-glyph-and-glyph-to-spaces#latestNick Shinn said:"In general, I don’t like types that are too smoothly spaced. Mashed potatoes, sure, but...
View ArticleColor fonts in Windows 10
FYI...As was mentioned here a year or so ago now, Windows 10 supports all of the colour font formats defined in OpenType 1.8.x. My co-worker, Rick Manning, has just published a post in the Windows...
View ArticleTTFAutohint seems incorrectly detecting whether a rasterizer supports Y-axis...
It actually detects whether a rasterizer supports fractional advance instead of y-axis anti-aliasing, however GDI in RS2 supported Y-AA without fractional advance.cc. @Werner Lemberg
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My first typeface: Darec
Hello guys, can you please review my typeface?? I have no professional background in graphic design and this is my first (and might be last) typeface. In a moment of vision, I had this idea when I was...
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[OTVar] Animation of symbols/emoji using CSS animation with variable fonts
I thought people might be interested in this animation I put together (based on photographs by Eadweard Muybridge) to understand how efficent it can be with variable fonts and CSS animation. Variable...
View ArticleHelp generating CID fonts
Hey everyone,I have a client asking about having a licensed font delivered instead as a CID font, as they are running a piece of old software that requires an Identity H Encoded CID font.Since CID...
View ArticleAt what point of the design process do you start digitising your drawings?
Hello, I am new to type design and I am currently working on my very first typeface. So far I have sketched out most of the lowercase and uppercase letters on paper.I was wondering, at what point do...
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Typeface Critiques
Hey everyobody!I'm Cristi Bordeianu, from Romania. I recently started working as a graphic designer and my whole focus and love goes to type design. This typeface is my first 'serious' attempt on...
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Abusing a Neural Network Drawing Tool intended for faces… (makying TYPE-FACES?)
This morning i came across http://fotogenerator.npocloud.nl/it allows you to draw faces and have it blend with a source image in an intelligent fashion.Warning - it's highly addictive.Now drawing with...
View ArticleFont Release Help/Tips
Hey friends,I sadly don't utilize this wonderful website enough – it's been a while since my last post. I'm now a year out of the Extended Type @ Cooper program and am nearing the finish line on my...
View ArticlePunchcutter's Facer (Facing Tool)
I had wanted to post some pictures of the "facer" in its different forms, but it turned out that there were too many for a posting of reasonable length. So I've put them in a page which is a kind of...
View ArticleOcre on the punch's face when hardening
Hi there,I his video Stan Nelson protects with ocre the face of the punch while heating it with the torch to avoid 'burning' it. Do you have more specific information about this paint. Where can I...
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Type alloy is too brittle for testing counterpunches
As several articles and books mention type alloy as a good medium to test the impression of counterpunches, I also tried to use it. After striking several metal types on the side (and shuttering all of...
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