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draft display serif crit
Hello everyone,I'm Gumpita Rahayu, a freelance type designer from Indonesia. I'm new here, and actually this is my first post too. Recently I'm trying to developing on some high contrast fonts, the...
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Joshef Moxon lead of imaginary langage made for John Wilkins
Hello everyone !I've been studying for few month a book from John Wilkins, an Anglican clergyman from XVIIe century, who invented a langage supposed to remplace all the existing ones. Of course, back...
View ArticleGranite - a more contemporary garamond ?
So this is supposed to be similar to Garamonds but be more durable for bad paper and printing, and also be more legible on screen. Supports Latin and Cyrillic. Italic is in progress, and also please...
View ArticleAn exchangeable text representation of TrueType hinting?
The current TrueType hints are all written in private formats making themHard to combineHard to exchangeHard to maintainCould we have an exchangeable format to describe the hints? Given that designers...
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Advice on wet bench grinders
Hi there,I am having problems with my regular DRY bench grinder. No matter how carefully I sharp my gravers, applying only short contacts with the stone and cooling them in water quickly, the smallest...
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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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Swash Capital Feedback/Guidance
Hello everyone!I'm in the process of developing some swash alternates for my italic typeface currently in the works. I (somewhat) recently finished up the Extended Type @ Cooper program and have been...
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Microsoft Font Validator runs native on Mac OS X!
(I think this deserves its own post thread!)I wrote before Christmas that I was making the font validator run standalone as mac os X command line binary, no need to install mono separately. So it...
View ArticleOrganization
Hey Gang! This may be an odd question but is something I think about from time to time. Does anybody have an organization system they use or love to manage all the different fonts/images/etc that all...
View ArticleRobofab Install on Mac 10.12.4
FL 5.1.5 build 5714 and OS 10.12.4: Robofab scripts won't work anymore despite reinstalling everything. There are different error messages either saying robofab.objects doesn't work or...
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Coolangatta
I think this is my rite-of-passage grotesque sans. I started it on a holiday; I discovered that in one of Australia's iconic surf locations, the design aesthetic had moved away from rough graffiti-like...
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...
View ArticleWhy FontCreator hardly used by professionals?
Hi, I'm pretty new here and I have this question. I saw some of my friends use this FontCreator to creat their fonts for personal uses, learning purpose etc... But I don't know why this software hardly...
View ArticleHeat treatment for matrix's blanks?
Hi there,I've read somewhere that copper matrix's blancs need some sort of heat treatment before striking them with the punch.Is you know more about it, can you describe the process?TIA.
View ArticleOpen Type Localisation or Stylistic Alternates ?
Whilst studying many fonts with Cyrillic support it became apparent that many fonts do Localisation for Bulgarian Cyrillic and Macedonian/Serbian Cyrillic by using Stylistic Alternates insead of or as...
View ArticleComing from where, at what age?
They say that Goudy started a new career from scratch at age 40.However, he had been a bookkeeper prior to then (1905), a job in which penmanship was paramount.Nowadays, one can get into type design...
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Small job - font creation
Hi there,I'd like to make this letter 'S' into a font file - I only need the one letter, nothing elseAlthough I have Photoshop I don't have any font creation software. Any takers for the job? Happy to...
View ArticleCouncil for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
New change to the official recommendations for German orthography: E3: Bei Schreibung mit Großbuchstaben schreibt man SS. Daneben ist auch die Verwendung des Großbuchstabens ẞ möglich. Beispiel:...
View ArticleHow to be a full-time typographer
Honest question, since I'm still "young" (read: NOT full-time) when it comes to doing typography-related work professionally:- For those of you who do it full-time, how are you able to provide for...
View ArticleSuperscript – missing forms
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-no-character-for-superscript-q-in-UnicodeI understand why there is no "q" in Unicode (thanks @Thomas Phinney for your past insight). But, why is the minuscule...
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