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Re: Cursivying - Fontlab 8
That’s not what the RMX slanter does. The example in the video tutorial (for the old FLS5 RMX Slanter tool), was just showing a simple example of a 1° adjustment. You can use the RMX slanter to apply…5 -
Re: Recommendations on building a foundry website
Kenneth Ormandy built the back end of our site, based on the Craft CMS platform, and Paul Hanslow contributed a lot of the design direction for the front end. It wasn’t cheap, but that’s very largely…5 -
Re: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future?
Again: there is a web interface. It is incredibly easy to use, and provides exactly the sort of functionality that a non-technical user would want. I can’t think of any compelling reason why I would …5 -
Re: Etiquette on using a historic source that's already been used
A revival is a revival. Making one does not magically transfer ownership of the original. You are no more obliged to a previous revival than the next revival is obliged to you. Keep that in mind when…5 -
Unicode 17.0 released
Unicode 17.0 has just been released. Unicode 17.0 Release Announcement Unicode 17.0 landing page9 -
Re: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future?
So, this isn’t personally my project or anything, but I have been paying attention and use both tools. I also happen to be in regular meetings with the folks who do make those tools. 1) No, Fontbaker…6 -
Re: Palatino in book publishing
The original European issue of Palatino in metal had most of those shapes. In About Alphabets (1970), Zapf says he was advised (by folks like Paul Standard and W. A. Dwiggins) that the American marke…10 -
Re: Lost - Found - Gone
Bookshelf collapses are bad, hoarding is not helpful. It's honest feedback that much typographic ephemera is wasted, especially on fellow type designers. And there is value in not being overly tied t…9 -
Re: Workshop Pricing
You need to consider your prep time as well as the teaching time (and travel time, etc.) As a broad guideline I might take what you would normally charge as a nice hourly rate, and then multiply that…8 -
Discover by FontBase
I'm new here, so let me introduce myself. My name is Dominik and I am the founder of FontBase - a free font manager. We are a small team of 2 people located in Ukraine. Our font manager has thousands…6
