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I try not to make it blend in. So I do a generic one. (View Post)

(Quote) If you're in the retail font market, you're not being paid by the hour. The way to think about adding things like Greek and Cyrillic is that it increases the appeal and expands the potential … (View Post)

I dare you to include a spacing axis and call it quantitative easing. (View Post)

I believe that 'locl' is a feature which is applied early, regardless of how it is ordered in your font (and thus will be applied before small caps). Therefore, you need your small caps feature to ap… (View Post)

My point is that 'locl' will always be applied before smcp, so there won't be any a.sc etc. for locl to affect when locl is applied. You'd need to either have a localized small caps feature that does… (View Post)

If he really wanted to improve reading, he wouldn’t be using a single-story “a” and “g.” They are easier to write, but harder to differentiate in reading for people who have difficulty differentiatin… (View Post)

Building off the work of @"Linus Romer" I've turned this into a Glyphs script as an excuse to learn using Vanilla to build UIs -- so you can apply the steps directly to your instances withi… (View Post)

After copying a couple of historical punches I can tell you it's not rocket science. It's fairly simple to use an existing punch or type to print with soot on translucent vellum or paper to trasfer t… (View Post)

Steel couldn't be melt in Europe until the 18th century. When crucible steel was invented, it was possible to produce high quality carbon steel, the reason why Rädisch and others favored Huntsman ste… (View Post)

>> Walter Tracy recounts Rädisch "engraving a white line in the 36 and 48 >> point size of Lutetia capitalsIn a few sources you can read that Rädisch cut Lutetia Open 36 and 48 direc… (View Post)