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Cantarell redesign
Hello everyone,I recently started redrawing Cantarell (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cantarell and GNOME's version, also https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cambay) in Glyphs because I was fed up...
View ArticleFranc currency symbol
So, ligatured Fr or an F with a line through it? Until now I had Fr ligature for the franc sign in my fonts, but as there are more countries in Europe and most of francophone Africa that use francs I'm...
View ArticleTwo Types: The Faces of Britain
We are surrounded by types, the words on signs, buses, shops and documents which guide us through our lives. Two types in particular are regarded as the faces of Britain - Johnston and Gill Sans. Their...
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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 ArticleList of OpenType font feature inspection tools?
Is there a list of OpenType font feature inspection tools available? I'm interested in programs for various platforms and/or online apps, either with a GUI or on the command line. Optimally, I'm...
View ArticleMonospaced ligatures
I’ve designed a monospaced typeface. It’s intended for running text, not programming. There are three f ligatures (ff, fl, fi). Does it make sense to leave them in LIGA or should I stick them in DLIG...
View ArticleGerman Script Assistance, Antique Melone / Bowler Hat
I am a collector of German and Austrian vintage hats. I have an old Melone/Bowler hat and the following writing was found on the back of the liner....
View Article[OTVAR] Exact definition of “bounding box” in a variable font.
In a nutshell: the exact definition of the "bounding box" used to calculate metrics (LSB & TSB in HMTX-HVAR/VMTX-VVAR). Will the rasterizer use a fixed bounding box for all the instances (like the...
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FontLab 5: Different ClearType hinting preview in Windows 10
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to proof pure ClearType GDI rendering. Browsers now use DirectWrite, which cannot be deactivated anymore (the config switches in Chrome and FF are gone). And now I...
View Article[OTVar] 3 long-form essays on Variable Fonts by David Berlow
https://www.typenetwork.com/brochure/opentype-font-variations/
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Tesserae — an experiment in modular variable fonts
With work on Quinoa drawing to a close, I've allowed myself to indulge in a little side project that's been bumbling around in the back of my head for a while. It's a typeface made only from five...
View ArticleCyrillic kern strings?
Dear Typographers, I am in need to kern a cyrillic typeface and looking for well made kern strings to use in FontLab. Could anyone help me with this? Much appreciated.
View ArticleLooking for references: rounded fat faces/1800s slabs
Hey everyone, hope all is well. I am looking for some references for a project I'm working on. I am creating a rounded (or for better: rounded corners) typeface that is based on the "western style" fat...
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Spacing in the Cyrillic glyphs of PT Sans and Source Sans Pro
I didn't find any special research on the spacing in the Cyrillic glyphs so I decided to share my observation on Cyrillic spacing in PT Sans and Source Sans Pro.In all cases the spacing is shown as a...
View ArticleThis Just In: Linotype Master Drawings
Really great article thought I’d share from Letterform ArchiveOnce threatened by dispersal, over 60,000 letter templates from the British Linotype company now have a home at Letterform Archive. Written...
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[OTVar] Axes Proposals: variationsguide.typenetwork.com
When OpenType 1.8.0 was released at ATypI last year, Peter Constable and Rob McKaughan at Microsoft said they would be soliciting proposals for new registered axes. With the recent publication of...
View ArticleGraphic & Typographic designer Alan Peckolick has died
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=alan-peckolick&pid=186298301
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Cyrillics I really need to bother with
While there's a time and a place for a fully decked-out Cyrillic Unicode range, I'm trying to come up with some better choices for where to draw the line. I've noticed a lot of fonts have a limited...
View ArticleAspects of quality for a typeface
I've been thinking on this today, and I've quickly written up a few things that I find to be the main points that make a typeface of quality. I would love to know if anyone has something to add to this...
View ArticleKerning Issue
Hello everybody,I'm wonder how many kerning pairs i can manage without having exportation problem. I mean, now in the metric window (kerning selected) show me #206 kerning pairs (this means that in the...
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