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Re: A New Type.lol - A type foundry index—and more!
Thinking aloud: If foundries want accurate information on aggregated sites, maybe there should be an openly defined data format for information that foundries would maintain themselves and that would…6 -
Re: What hobbies or activities do you do for a break?
walk the dogs board games Genealogy and family research. Eventually found my sister after several hundred hours of research, so that was cool.5 -
Commercial Support For Type
Hi All After 10 year with The Northern Block as Head of Operations, I am starting up on my own helping Type Designers/Foundries with the commercial side of the business. The aim is simple: help found…9 -
Re: Custom fonts that blend two existing typefaces — any other examples?
It’s possible to produce designs that differ in all sorts of ways — stroke modulation, construction, idiom — while retaining similar proportions and hence spacing/kerning. Also bear in mind that hist…6 -
Re: A New Type.lol - A type foundry index—and more!
If you’re looking for a reasonably central place to set the record straight about your fonts, Wikidata is worth considering. Projects like Type.lol can pull structured data from there and incorporate…5 -
2026 TypeDrawers Sponsors!
Matthew Rechs from Business Letters has offered a sponsorship that will cover these costs for the coming year. Thank you Bizlet! Business Letters provides coaching and consulting for the independent …6 -
New font editor announcement: Counterpunch, also in Alpha ;)
Introducing Counterpunch, a next-generation font editor that runs directly in your browser. Inspired by the counterpunch, a traditional punch-cutting tool from the metal type era, this modern digital…12 -
Shift, adding another open source font editor to the mix (early alpha)
Hey! I wanted to share a project I'm working on called Shift. It's a new font editor that's free, open-source, and cross-platform. I'm a software engineer by trade but have always…6 -
A New Type.lol - A type foundry index—and more!
Hey there! My name Mark Johnson, and I run Type.lol as well as TrashType and I wanted to announce a new version of type.lol and seek some feedback if you're willing and able! I made the original…10 -
Re: Input on work in progress typeface
Also, as a general rule, it is better to do a handful of characters and polish them, and then get feedback on them and refine them repeatedly, gradually expanding the character set, than to do a full…5
