Move calt to salt in mastered files?
Hey everyone.I have a client that would like to have the contextual alt feature move to the stylistic alt OpenType feature, as the calt is on by default in Adobe apps and they don't want that. Is there...
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When is it worth changing the strikeout or underline position or style?
Hi,I'm guessing never! Weirdly I've never thought about this. Yet we in Persian always have problems with the default position of underlines in fonts, because letters go below the baseline and it gets...
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
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Junctions and 1 or 2 nodes
Some fonts have junctions that all end in a single node, some that all end in two nodes, some that use a mix of both depending on the glyph (the first two images are from the same glyph). Is there a...
View ArticlePlex; IBM's new font identity model
Saw this news item.It is not particularly new that a company has commissioned a new font for its own exclusive use in order to enhance its own corporate identity.But while this may not be a first,...
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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...
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Enabling HTTPS
I think it's good to enable https protocol on TypeDrawers. Because as you may heard before, now all browsers treat http websites as "Not Secure" and it affects SEO and access to the website now and in...
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Adobe Illustrator CS6 won't show some glyphs
Hello all,I am having trouble with some glyphs in a font I developed - when I install the font, open an Illustrator project and try to pick them from the Glyphs table, they DO appear in the table, but...
View ArticleWhat was the very first typeface described as “feminine”?
Caren Litherland asked this question on Twitter a few days ago. Any ideas?
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No Name Serif (first typeface)
Hello,This is my first attempt at designing a typeface. I'm a recent graphic design graduate and was looking for ways to hone my skills as a typographer and develop further understanding on how type is...
View ArticleExporting a font from Fontcreator 11.0
Hi everyone,Recently I decided I wanted to create a font. I had drawn all the characters in Adobe Illustrator and then placed them in Fontcreator. The thing is that I have the free trial and when I was...
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Unnamed Geometric Sans
I’m trying to finish off an old project that I’ve been sporadically chipping away at for a while now. It’s a pretty simple geometric sans (sorry) that’s very much indebted to Johnston.I’d like to think...
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I trained a neural network to kern a font (mostly)
TLDR: I basically have autokerning working. I consider the concept proven. It needs a little bit more polishing, but I don't have time right now. Will come back to it later.Ever since watching the...
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Proposal for font distribution/installation app
Hi everyone.For an upcoming project I thought of creating a GUI font installer app that would automatically install the latest version of a typeface that my client can start using at an early stage and...
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Freitag — toying around with a geometric display sans
So I've had this inexplicable urge to start drawing one of the most redundant fonts imaginable — a geometric display sans. In particular, I thought I'd try to make it stand out from the crowd with some...
View ArticleOn counting Points
I've only been here about two weeks, and counting Points is not a major issue, but:It bothers me that Disagree deducts from your Points. You can't discuss openly without disagreeing with somebody, and...
View ArticleEULAs: No Modifications Clauses.
Some font vendors (e.g. Adobe) specifically allow modifications of their fonts, but many (I suspect most) specifically prohibit any form of modification in their EULAs.I can think of a number of...
View ArticlePlaying around with Venetians
Hi ! After drawing Geranium, which was already inspired by Jenson and Venetians, I am trying to do something around Jenson itself. That was a very old dream, naïve and enthusiast. Here are my first...
View ArticleAncient printed arabic numerals ?
HiI am searching ancient printed samples of arabic numerals for my Uccello font project. Does someone know some examples on the web ?Thanks in advance !ivan
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