I have not read him, but I am informed that one of the main defenders of Coster was Hessels: https://www.amazon.com/Haarlem-Birth-Place-Printing-Classic-Reprint/dp/1331964687 And there is this other … (View Post)
Daniel Calders, a talented current EcTd student, defined a workflow to digitally reproduce a type specimen of a historical foundry-type model. To this end, he has automated a large part of the process … (View Post)
Maybe a slightly thinner join on that middle would be good. But overall, it just looks heavier than other letters. Perhaps best to re-evaluate after making some other adjustments, though. Don’t let t… (View Post)
Lots of things are working now! Definitely getting there. Small detail: your baseline is the baseline, but the x-height is set to the overshoot rather than the “flat” x-height. If you have blue zones… (View Post)
The biggest difference between the display and the new text version will be the application of archetypal grid fitting to the latter. I believe that, on the whole, the atmosphere of Van den Keere’s s… (View Post)
Hi Ruben! Welcome, and I am sure many of us will be interested to check out your typefaces. Especially fun to see typefaces that are first designed for another writing system and then the Latin is th… (View Post)
Fernando Mello is a graduate of the EcTd 2012–2013 course, during which he started designing the award-winning typeface FS Brabo. He was an employee of Fontsmith at the time and after this company wa… (View Post)
Oh those wily raccoons! Yeah, no rush, as jeremy noted there are workarounds; just wanted to make sure it was on your radar. Thanks, Paul (and James)! (View Post)
Hi! We, at Tipo e, have recently released How To Create Typefaces, originally written in Spanish by Cristóbal Henestrosa, Laura Meseguer and José Scaglione, and now translated by Christopher Burke an… (View Post)