Foundries Allowing Modification
Besides Adobe, Shinn Type and Monokrom, which foundries allow licensees to modify their fonts? Under what conditions?
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Interesting digital type history videos
I'm sure some other people here would appreciate these Computerphile videos that talk about the history of digital type. Maybe not useful, but for those who love details of our history:A bit about...
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...
View ArticleTypography Videos (Website)
Hey everyoneHere is a website that I've created with some feedback from TypeDrawers.Right now there's a lot of conferences and type related videos (+70 videos an I have a ton to...
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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...
View ArticleWhy FontCreator hardly used by professionals?
Hi, I'm pretty new here and I have this question. I saw some of my friends use this FontCreator to creat their fonts for personal uses, learning purpose etc... But I don't know why this software hardly...
View Articleyouworkforthem
Hey guys & gals! I have been working hard on a typeface that I finally feel is ready to be released. I don't want to start my own "foundry" and would like to release it through a foundry like...
View ArticleWhat’s the best on Windows in 2017?
I’m a newbie in font design, so my question is probably stupid.Now I draw glyphs in FontLab VI (drawing tools are quite awesome there), and then I have to export it to FL 5 and do the rest there....
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Bunbeg — a serif in six weights — also includes traditional Irish letterforms
This is my first post on TypeDrawers. I'm a graphic designer, college lecturer and sometime type designer. I haven't released any fonts previously as I've never been entirely satisfied with them, but...
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Musk, High Contrast Sans Serif
Hi, I'm new in type, previously I'm working for Illustration and logos, and this is my second font family that still in progress. Im looking at Linotype's Optima and try to explore that style. Focus in...
View Article[OTVar] Next step for variable fonts: process for registering design...
In my talk at ATypI (video here), I mentioned that I was working on creating an open process for people to propose design axes for registration, and for review and discussion of those proposals. That...
View ArticleExporting fea file
I work with FontLabs Studio along with VOLT and my colleague uses Glyphs. I'm mostly working on OT Tables that I've worked on in VOLT. So I have a TTF file with features and need a way to export the...
View ArticleUnits per em
From your experience, does the choice of "units per em" (e.g., 1000, 1024, 2048) make a difference in font functionality? Any reason you choose one size over another? I have generally used 1000, but...
View ArticleAre we heading towards a "VariableFontCloud"?
I have thought about a peculiar possibility for some time:given that we now have variable font technologyand that we can blend the outlines of a two fonts to create a new fontand that there is, for...
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Alternate Glyph (special characters)
Hello everyone. I have created a font and special characters but I do not know how to link a letter to all its variants so that when I install it and use it in Adobe Illustrator, I can see the...
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Apply otvar tag to all Variations threads
https://blog.typekit.com/2017/10/19/new-variable-fonts-from-adobe-originals/ points people to http://typedrawers.com/discussions/tagged/otvar but not all the Variations related threads have that tag....
View ArticleDuospace. Wait, what? Duospace?
The folks who make the "distraction-free" text editor iA Writer have added a second typeface to the options available for writing in iA Writer. It's a modified version of IBM Plex Mono called iA Writer...
View ArticleWhy are some glyphs not named in FontLab Studio 5?
Most glyphs in the font window are pre assigned with a name, but some are not. For example: uni00AD (SOFT HYPHEN) and uni00A0 (NO-BREAK SPACE).Why are those glyphs not named?Can I assign safely the...
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[OTVar] Spacing axis
Recently I proposed to Microsoft the registration of a ‘Spacing axis’ in OpenType Font Variations. Tracking and CSS letterspacing are highly primitive mechanisms and they mess up spacing (for instance...
View ArticleMove 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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