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Google Fonts is hiring a software engineer
Love software engineering, large-scale distributed systems, open source, and fonts? We are looking for Software Engineers who can help advance the Google Fonts stack. Come work with us @ Google HQ...
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HT LetterSpacer
We, at Huerta Tipográfica, are happy to announce that our method and script for spacing fonts has been released at ATypI 2016 and available online at our Github repository to be used as a Glyphs...
View ArticleFunky Italics
Hey folks,Italics tend to offer more room for creativity and surprising solutions. I'm looking for examples of funky italics in book typefaces. For example...- The rotated stress in Adobe Caslon's o-...
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Funtauna (rectangular slab serif)
Funtauna is a still unfinished slab serif with rectangular joints: There are no kerning tables yet, but I consider the general spacing as more or less done.Later, I will add also a light face and...
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Which typeface is this (as used by New York Magazine in their last fashion...
I have asked New York Magazine themselves what it is but for some reason they decline to comment. I'd love to know.
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CCMP/LIGA Character Composition Question for Fictional Font
Hi All!Sorry I didn't read the rule that says real names only...I'm John Lapage Just so you know where I am coming from, I am a scientist and programmer, so I have some technical expertise, but only...
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Norse Sans, Geometric & Grotesque
I'm a UI/UX designer by trade. This will be my first serious typeface I've worked on. The brief of Norse Sans is to be a comfortable read on displays, both body sized text and larger titles. Because of...
View ArticleVOLT tags.txt to OT 1.8.2
I spent some time today updating my VOLT tags.txt file to cover scripts, language systems, and features as covered in the OT v1.8.2 registry. Note that in a few cases my names don't exactly match the...
View ArticleFontLab Studio and High Sierra
I’ve run into a serious issue with FontLab Studio (build 5714) after upgrading to High Sierra -- everything seems to work fine *except* the ability to paste or append glyphs (which is fairly crucial)....
View ArticleInteresting article about history of Futura
https://news.byu.edu/news/font-you-never-realized-was-everywhere
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Fineliner Mono - A tribute to lovable limits
PREFACEI've toyed around a few years with Fontographer and FLS now, because I want to make a font. But due to the steep learning curve, complexity of the craft and the lack of a clear plan of what to...
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Could we hack into designing a Persian/Arabic braille font?
Hello everybody!A few days ago I accidentally (somehow) found out that there is no Persian/Arabic braille font whatsoever! None. There are some applications and very old techniques to do the...
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New type design periodical, Footnotes
https://twitter.com/LaPoliceType/status/751372140012834816Interestingly the back of the magazine is a space for people to submit typefaces to, so you can see how they look in a real print publication
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SepidKhan: An alternate for Persian/Arabic braille
After seeing the complexity of Persian braille and the great idea of Elia Life Technology for the English (Latin) braille, I have decided to do a Persian version of their work. I have contacted the CEO...
View ArticleVTT v6.0
Hi all –Does anyone have the installer for the previously-distributed version of VTT? It's at 6.2 on the MS site now and that has bugs and, even though I installed it into a separate directory, it...
View Articlehmtx/HVAR
It seems to me that Illustrator is not properly handling metrics in variable fonts. First I though it was about a missing HVAR but even with that it is keeping the metrics of the default...
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Barlow - A headline grotesk for the EFF
Hi, all, this is my first post here, though I've met some of you online and in person.I'm very new to type design, but I dove in after we hosted a Crafting Type event at the Electronic Frontier...
View Article70s Movie Poster Typography
Hopefully not too spammy, but maybe some of you would enjoy our Instagram account '70s Movie Poster Typography'. We look at a different movie poster from the 70s every day, identify and discuss the...
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Which g?
Which italic g is most suited to accompany the Roman at the top? I know which I favour but I'd like to see what others think.
View ArticleModular scripts project: looking for information about writing instruction
Last December I asked TD members for help identifying examples of modular type and lettering. I'm happy to say that the outline of the first stage of the project is drafted, and with a little luck and...
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