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Wooden Walls lettering
Hi everyone, I'm working on some lettering for a client, and would be much obliged to receive some critique. Quick introduction, as I'm new here: I'm Duncan, I live in Newfoundland on the east coast of...
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Old neon signage in Germany
Those of you who fancy old commercial neon signs in the city may enjoy watching this theme galery.The majority of these advertisements have vanished, however, a few survived and have even been...
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Wild Dave
This is a display font. I was attracted to a secondary font on the business card of a 1900's-era bar of a family member. It was period, yet still had some modern overtones (or at least the characters...
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Fixed Stroke Width and Hebrew
As you probably all know, horizontal strokes appear wider than vertical strokes of the same width, which is why fixed-stroke-width fonts usually compensate for this illusion by having their vertical...
View ArticleFontForge: Any way to compare versions of a glyph?
Does anyone knows a better way to compare versions of a glyph in FontForge? I know I can save a copy of the whole font and then compare the two, but wondering if there's something less prone to version...
View ArticleProblems Loading TypeDrawers
Are you too having problems loading TypeDrawers in the past two or three days?
View ArticleWhen did the "Serif vs. Sans" derby started?
Hello, everyone!While I was writing some stuff, I began wondering when and how this idea that sans-serif type is more legible on screen started.Do any of you have an idea about it? Cheers!
View ArticleNew approaches of Arabic and English typeface, Please your feedback
I would like to share with you a new Arabic and English typeface under the name "AK Riyadh Sans", The font has a compatible in both languages Arabic and English with nice and modern shapes.Here you can...
View ArticleEfficiency in kerning pairs
Does anyone know of research/statistics in kerning? How many kerning pairs are considered acceptable so it doesn’t increase too much the weight of the font files? One can refine a lot the space between...
View ArticleFont Validator 2.1 Release Notes and status
Font Validator is a tool for testing fonts prior to release. It was initially developed by Microsoft, to ensure that fonts meet Microsoft's high quality standards and perform exceptionally well on...
View ArticleOrigins of Python in Type Design
All major font editing software support python as a scripting language. RoboFont is actually written in python from ground up if i recall correctly. How come this has become the font design go-to...
View ArticleUsing literature in a type specimen
I'm wondering what legal precautions (if any) should be taken into account for using published text or words (books, articles, hell even tweets) in a type specimen that you intend to:1. distribute for...
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TYPO Labs 2018 Berlin, April 12–14
TYPO LabsHow far can we go?April 12–14, 2018 TYPO Labs aims to connect font engineers and practitioners with OS developers, CSS experts and academics. The purpose is to provide a platform for the...
View Article[OTVar & Math]: approximating arbitrary function to OTVar masters.
The situation is that, if, your point coordinate, or metric, is not manually maintained in a MM flavor, but calculated from something else, like a constraint solver, what is the best way to construct a...
View ArticleNeed help – #calt works differently in apps and on web
Handwriting cursive font with 3 sets of alternates, separated into vowels and consonants./space is made to be ignored when substituting, so that it can go con0-con1-space-con2 etc.The code (for...
View ArticleLaunch Timing
I've long been curious to figure out what are good and bad times of the year to launch typefaces.Any insights?
View ArticleLocal Fonts – a site dedicated to fonts and their localization
This site Local Fonts is dedicated to fonts and their localization. Its main concern is the versatility of the Cyrillic Script forms. Here you will find different typefaces carefully classified as...
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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...
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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 ArticleNew Darden Studio eula
it took a lot longer than we planned (last atypi I said "a few months") but we're finally live with the new eula.The documents were actually written last December but we waited to post them till we...
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