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Calligraphic lettering critique
Hi,Besides wanting to be a type designer, I also want to be a hand-letterer. So, I have experimented by drawing a Copperplate-esque script. This is sort of new terrain, so when giving your constructive...
View ArticleGerman typeface designer Helmut Matheis turns 100
Born in 1917, Helmut Matheis studied at the Munich Academy under F. H. Ehmcke. His typefaces include Primadonna, Charme, Slogan, Matheis-Mobil, Contact, Compliment, Presto, Prestige, Windsor (all for...
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Help make a font tool.
Hello beautiful typographers, I really like good typeface combinations. I mean... I like-like them. I want to see them everywhere I go on the internet. So I recently developed a simple website to help...
View ArticleTextEdit Font Menu
I’m working on a font with non standard weight names. I’ve set the ‘WeightClass’ correctly and they display as expected in Indesign but they appear in the wrong order in the TextEdit Font menu ....
View Article[OTVar] Contrast Axis (ctst)
Hi all,I am writing the proposal about contrast axis for @Peter Constable. However the biggest problem is the way we interpret the value.My general idea is:Higher contrast should reflect higher ctst...
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[OTVar] Changing tracking/HVAR
I’m not sure if I understand all of the involved parts/tables correctly yet, thus my question.Is it possible to build an axis that adjusts the tracking of a font by just using the HVAR table?I have...
View ArticleGoing dotty
I’m making a font in which the glyphs are composed of many small, identical circles (dots).If, rather than render each dot as a fresh element, I were to create one glyph that is a master dot, and link...
View ArticleRedrawing a geometric sans for text use
I have a low contrast geometric sans design with fairly circular rounded shapes, double story a and g, and monotonous (not monospace) widths. I designed it for logos and headlines and now I'd like to...
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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 Article[OTVar] Instance font by name mangling?
Aside from STAT, i think there is another way that to serve variable fonts to legacy applications, which is name mangling. The principle is pretty simple: to call FontName's `wght = 100` instance, we...
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Are foundry initials an inherent part of a type family name?
Suppose foundry XYX released a type family XYZ Abc. Is 'Abc' now considered to be 'taken'? Can I still release my own font under the name 'Abc'?I get it that sometimes an aged font is being digitized...
View ArticleCopy or what?
Hi everyone, in the November 10th (2017) newsletter of myfonts.com I discovered in the "hot new font section" a font called Merlod. I had the feeling, in a way that it is quite similar to a font I have...
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Ordinal/superscript feature for French
If the above characters are included in a font, how – and to what extent – should OpenType be involved in rendering them correctly for French? Would it make sense to use the ordn feature? Is this a...
View ArticleFont or Font Software
Hi,I'm working for Paratype, Moscow. Currently we are in a process of updating our license policy. Here, in Russia, we can protect fonts as "an art work representing images of letters, numbers and...
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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...
View Article[OTVar] Feature tag as axis tag?
As @Peter Constable told me, there are some experiments about turning feature tags into axis tags. So generally is it a good idea? In fact some OT features can be really represented into variations...
View ArticleIs there a way to create a font that uses the two Shift keys differently?
I'm not a professional font creator, so excuse me if I don't know much terminology. I'm hoping to create a font that has three options per letter--regular and two different diacritics--and one Shift...
View ArticleWebfont test suites or validation tools, which ones are there
One comment I picked up multiple times while talking/reading about webfonts, is that people are weary about creating WOFF and WOFF2 fonts because it adds so much work. These fonts need to be prepared,...
View ArticleLicensing that allows a small company to send the fonts to their service...
As a design studio choosing and assigning typefaces for clients, our biggest font-related issue nowadays is this:We (studio) license typeface for our own use, client (company) licenses for their use....
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