Metricsmachine letter pairs not showing
Hello everyone, I ran into some problems with Metricsmachine and thought maybe someone here knows how to fix it. I've done the kerning for my cursive. The last thing I did in Metricsmachine was add a...
View ArticleBBC now publishing content in African pidgin
http://nyti.ms/2CvNIsfA whole new set of test words awaits
View ArticleHelp with Fontforge and Adobe Alternate Character Selection?
Hey everyone. I’m a graphic designer working in the marketing field. One of my current passion projects is designing an industrial sans-serif typeface. I’ve spent the last few months learning Fontforge...
View ArticleFontlab VI uranges.dat file
The uranges.dat file included with FontLab VI dates back to 2007 and thus is just a tad out of date.I’ve attached an up-to-date version for anyone who needs it.André
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Advice on wet bench grinders
Hi there,I am having problems with my regular DRY bench grinder. No matter how carefully I sharp my gravers, applying only short contacts with the stone and cooling them in water quickly, the smallest...
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,...
View Articlehttp:// is a big problem
Personally, I don't care if a URL is displayed with http:// https:// but this is a thread about that subject. Discuss here rather than in the middle of threads about other topics.
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What are the names for styles of the digit one?
I collect coins and I see variations in the style of the digit one ("1") on coins and I would like to learn the correct terminology to discuss the variations. Is there a good resource for font...
View ArticleGet a live type critique on Fontribute
Hi everyone! Just wanted to post an open call to folks who are working on an in-progress typeface design (preferably Latin script) who are interested in discussing their work as a guest on a future...
View ArticleSeparate language codes for different Englishes
I would like to code fonts to behave differently for North American and British English.(In particular, for punctuation.)Is this possible?
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...
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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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[OTVar] GTK / GNOME support for Variable Fonts in UI
https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2018/01/03/more-fun-with-fonts/Some great videos showing how variable fonts can work in UIs Has anyone seen any other OS developer demo'ing variable fonts in their UIs...
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Kerning vs Tracking – terminology question
In font design it is pretty much clear what is kerning and what is letter-spacing. But which word is more correct to use when you’re talking about an abstract pair of letters (in custom lettering, logo...
View ArticleAlegreya Sans and serif - missing 4 sub Serbian Italic glyphs
Hello, I am graphic designer and I am fond of good fonts. Alegreya Sans and serif are very nice Pro fonts.We can see that in OT feature locl for Serbian, only one glyph б has sub, other four г,д,п,т...
View ArticleNo Favicon on Type Drawers?
When I add a search engine to my browser (Vivaldi), it has no favicon. Could that be fixed easily?Edit: I see that if I add a bookmark, the favicon appears, so perhaps the problem lies with Vivaldi?
View ArticleNaming the Widest Width
Hi everyone,In a large type family (5 widths), how would you name the widest width? It is really wide. The widths already set are: Compressed, Condensed, Regular and Wide. Which one of these choices...
View ArticleCan't view page mode in FL5
Hi guys,I usually invoke the page mode from the bar below the Glyph window, but that bar has mysteriously disappeared and for the love of me I can't remember how to get it back. Any help?T.U.I.A!
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Will this work for Greek?
Hello everybody, My name is Ebern and I have been working on my first solo type project for quite a while now. It is still a work in progress but I feel I’ve come to a point where I need some feedback....
View ArticleHinting and OS X
Just a very quick question I was hoping someone could answer...I know that Mac OS X doesn’t make use of hinting, but do Adobe applications, which make use of their own rasterizers, use hints on the...
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