Swash letters may be used within a line of text, so while it is tempting to space them to hang in the margin, you also need to take into account their use at the beginning of words within a line. (View Post)
Hi there, I'm working on a plugin that introduces NLI/HOI to the Glyphs app.It's in beta now. You can request a copy of the plugin at pkolchanov.ru/nla (View Post)
A big motivation for starting Fonts In Use was to credit typefaces (and their designers) used in books and other published works. We have a meta-level tag “colophons/imprints” for Uses that have imag… (View Post)
(A selection of Hasan’s work) Here’s a small update about the campaign: With just over 25,000€ it looks well-funded, but the single-largest donation of 9,500€ is from a direct friend of Hasan's, and … (View Post)
Crayon en Folie was made using an actual pencil. I wrote out all the glyphs, then scanned the document and vectorised it using Fontlab Studio. Fontlab Studio is better at complex fonts like Crayon en… (View Post)
Sorry that I need to come back to this. I don't mean to argue but this has been bothering me for a while and I want to get this off my head: Donations to aid organizations, while surely important, st… (View Post)
Here's my latest variation on the concept. Default swash caps, simplified caps (which trail any initial swash cap as contextual alternate), and lowercase. Leaning into the calligraphic-ness and weird… (View Post)