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Favourite Figures?
Just trying to grow my collection of (in my opinion) the best figures. This subject is subjective because one could argue that a typeface is also representational of it's figures, but I'm looking for...
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...
View ArticleURW is hiring a Senior Typeface Designer
URW is a technology-focused company with an extensive typeface library and a global network of clients. Now part of Global Graphics, a leader in digital and print document environments, we are...
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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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Farro—a joyful, whimsical display typeface
Hi all! I’ve designed Farro for Grayscale—the company I’m currently working for—as an attempt to replace the current display typeface we’re using, and potentially we want to use Farro for clients’...
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Why these multi-color fonts are upside down in Photoshop CC 2017?
Hi,I got so excited when I heard about the new Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 version which supports SVG multi-color fonts.But when I try to check this new feature, some of the fonts get upside down! These...
View ArticleAre device metrics tables still required?
I have stopped adding 'hdmx' and 'LTSH' to hinted ttf's but I still add 'VDMX'. Is this table still required, even for OTVars?
View ArticleType Thursday in London
Not sure if everyone has heard, but another chapter of Type Thursday has started in London. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/type-thursday-lon-november-chk-design-tickets-38531431549?aff=erelexpmlt
View ArticleType-design education: its importance and (future) role
Although this topic started as a job offer, at some point it became a discussion on the importance and role of formal type-design education. This as such is not new: the same happened in this topic....
View ArticleThe president of Kazakhstan (or is it Qazaqstan now?) signs the latinisation...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/26/kazakhstan-switch-official-alphabet-cyrillic-latinThe alphabet that has been chosen is probably the blandest Turkic alphabet ever, its only redeeming...
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Dutch IJ with dots
Are dots over Dutch IJ a local form of acute accents? An example is in the image below (Thanks, @Nina Stössinger), and it turns up a few more times in the flickr IJ group.
View ArticleArabic variable fonts in Photoshop
A user on my forum has problems with getting a Arabic variable font to work in Photoshop. I tried in and had the same result. Has anyone an Arabic font that works in Photoshop. (Illustrator CC 2018...
View ArticleAnfíbia - new display font
Hello! It is the second time I come post my job here for analysis, this latter is also derived from the design shown here. In this new typeface left the art nouveau influences more explicit in Cap,...
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Critique of slab serif
Hi!I am currently sketching a hand-lettering piece with this word, which means Egypt. I was hoping that anyone had some constructive criticism. I am already aware that the joints of the N are too...
View Articletool to measure font colour
Could anyone point me to a tool to measure the colour of letters in a digital font? I do not mean rgb or CMYK colour but the ratio of black and white areas. And are there any statistics available?
View ArticleGenerate variable fonts on windows?
What apps can export variable fonts on windows? Seems like it’s still not possible in FontLab VI
View ArticleCapital Eng
Hey, everyone!I'm a bit confused with the formal aspects of the capital Eng (U+014A). So it has two forms, one based on the lowercase n, the other one on the uppercase N.In previous typefaces, I'd...
View ArticleAccess to localized forms.
How does software access the localized glyphs in apps that don’t list the languages in the localization menus? Do apps default to the language set in the operating system? For example, Sami languages...
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Web Fonts Guide
Today we released a a guide for using web fonts that we’ve created over the last few months. It covers the basics as well as more advanced topics – the required HTML & CSS for self-hosted fonts,...
View ArticleAnti-Ink-Traps
I'm looking for examples of what I'm inelegantly calling "anti-ink-traps" — design features that would function the way an ink trap would, but for type that's meant to be reversed out of a dark...
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