http://typedrawers.com/discussions/feed.rss Thu, 23 May 2013 15:30:14 +0000 TypeDrawers en-CA http://typedrawers.com/discussion/357/ordinal-i-and-indesign-7-0-4 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:42:47 +0000 Technique and Theory yanone 357@/discussions I’m having trouble with the ordn-Feature and the superior »i«.
My InDesign 7.0.4 doesn’t replace it, whereas all the other ordinal letters work fine.
It also works as expected in Illustrator and earlier versions of InDesign.



The responsible OT code is this, and I double checked that the i is included in source and target @ordn classes.
sub [@ordn_numbers @ordn_target] @ordn_source' by @ordn_target;

Does anybody else have this problem, maybe in newer version of InDesign? If not, I shall ignore this bug, since it must be specific only to this InDesign version.

Thank you.]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/356/need-critique-on-sans-serif-cyrillics Fri, 17 May 2013 15:25:41 +0000 Critiques—Type Design Eimantas Paškonis 356@/discussions

Bulgarian and Serbian/Macedonian variants:


PDF]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/336/four-the-outlier Sat, 04 May 2013 04:11:26 +0000 Technique and Theory Craig Eliason 336@/discussions http://typedrawers.com/discussion/314/printer-recommendations-for-proofing Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:24:31 +0000 Software Jeff Kellem 314@/discussions
Ideally, the minimum requirements would be:
- true 1200 dpi,
- Adobe PostScript 3
- laser printer technology

Are there other minimum requirements I should be considering?

In the U.S., the low-end cost for 1200 dpi plus Adobe PostScript 3 seems to be above $1,000. To get something around the $500 mark and below usually means going with the vendor's PostScript 3 emulation. In the past, I wanted to stay away from most emulations. If I lived in Australia, I'd probably try out the Fuji Xerox DocuPrint P355d (which hits the under $500 mark with Adobe PostScript 3 and 1200 dpi).
http://www.fujixerox.com.au/products/printers/monochrome-printers/docuprint-p355d/dpp355

Are there printers with PostScript 3 emulation and 1200 dpi that work well enough? 2400 dpi, though nice to have, seems to make the price increase a lot.

Thanks!
[Posting in Software since there wasn't a Hardware category.]]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/352/most-popular-web-fonts-of-2012 Mon, 13 May 2013 23:34:28 +0000 Business Daniel Sabino 352@/discussions http://blog.webink.com/most-popular-web-fonts-for-2012/

Web = Sans, print = Sans + Serif? Can serif typefaces compete with sans on the web? Why this amazing difference in popularity?]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/355/what-was-japan-paper Thu, 16 May 2013 19:45:12 +0000 History of Typography James Puckett 355@/discussions http://typedrawers.com/discussion/311/dual-monitors Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:05:58 +0000 Technique and Theory Max Phillips 311@/discussions http://typedrawers.com/discussion/343/capital-eszett-in-opentype-code Tue, 07 May 2013 13:43:15 +0000 Technique and Theory James Grieshaber 343@/discussions http://typedrawers.com/discussion/353/confie-working-title Tue, 14 May 2013 21:02:40 +0000 Critiques—Type Design Gabriel Figueiredo 353@/discussions I've been fooling around with type design for the last 2 years, reading a lot of books and stuff on the internet. Most of my designs so far had been a bit "playful", while this is my latest attempt on a more "serious" type design (but it is still display :P).
It is a heavy slab serif with curvy lowercase letters and blocky uppercase letters.

Looking forward for your comments!
PDF: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23700521/type_specimen.pdf]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/346/petition-adobe-eliminate-the-mandatory-creative-cloud-subscription-model Wed, 08 May 2013 17:34:12 +0000 Software Ramiro Espinoza 346@/discussions
http://www.change.org/petitions/adobe-systems-incorporated-eliminate-the-mandatory-creative-cloud-subscription-model]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/354/robofab-in-glyphs-app Wed, 15 May 2013 15:55:35 +0000 Software Stuart Sandler 354@/discussions
Finally jumped on the Glyphs bandwagon and am hitting the ground running . . . I am currently otherwise using Mac 10.6.8 and have been using Robofab via FontLab (Python 2.6 is installed).

Now that I have installed Glyphs, I'm not entirely sure how to access some of my Robofab old scripts from within the App, I haven't seen any clear documentation how to go about this either. Georg points to two required .py files but it isn't clear how these integrate with the specific scripts I'd use (eg. Threshold Pen)

Any hints to point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance!
Stuart]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/349/florin-sign-f Fri, 10 May 2013 17:20:34 +0000 Technique and Theory Ermin Mededovic 349@/discussions
Is it still necessary?]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/342/monotype-seeks-a-font-engineer-germany Tue, 07 May 2013 12:59:31 +0000 Job Postings James Grieshaber 342@/discussions
Monotype needs a German/English speaking Font Engineer in Bad Hamburg or Berlin.
http://monotypeeurope.applicantpro.com/jobs/25519-10855.html
]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/327/backstein-an-abstract-angular-display-font Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:43:38 +0000 Critiques—Type Design Christian Thalmann 327@/discussions
The idea of a squarish gemetric font is hardly original, but I hope I brought in some fresh air with those rather unconventional letter forms (especially the {r} and {s}).

Here's a PDF specimen: http://www.cinga.ch/type/backstein_specimen.pdf



I'd be happy to hear your thoughts on it.

Cheers]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/350/2007-poll-on-type-design-tools Sat, 11 May 2013 15:22:14 +0000 Software Stephen Coles 350@/discussions Typophile asking forum readers what OS and apps they used for designing type. Here were the results (screenshot of ugly unfinished charts also attached).

Many suggestions for improving the poll followed. If a simple survey like this were to be conducted again (to include new tools like Robofont and Glyphs) how would you change the methodology?]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/351/nomenclature-in-the-6th-century Sun, 12 May 2013 15:21:29 +0000 Technique and Theory David Berlow 351@/discussions http://typedrawers.com/discussion/334/recommended-method-to-subset-ttfs-and-webfonts Thu, 02 May 2013 07:17:24 +0000 Technique and Theory Ramiro Espinoza 334@/discussions http://typophile.com/node/75698 (last post from 2010) I guess what is your recommended method / software to do subsetting.
Thanks in advance.]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/348/unicode-assignation-scrambled-after-ot-ttf-generation Fri, 10 May 2013 15:57:11 +0000 Technique and Theory Ramiro Espinoza 348@/discussions http://typedrawers.com/discussion/339/varnished-truth-a-geometric-wedge-serif-on-an-incline Mon, 06 May 2013 04:16:35 +0000 Critiques—Type Design Kyle Wayne Benson 339@/discussions




Varnished Truth Bold Character Inventory]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/345/italic-angle-in-the-font-info-key-dimmensions-positive-or-negative-value Wed, 08 May 2013 12:41:40 +0000 Software PabloImpallari 345@/discussions
While testing the macro, I've found that some fonts use a negative value.
For example, if the angle is 12°, some fonts use the value: 12 (positive) while some other use the value: -12 (negative)

Is there any reason to use a negative value?
Is it documented somewhere?

Thanks in advance


]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/341/typekit-desktop-sync Mon, 06 May 2013 21:42:13 +0000 Business Frode Bo Helland 341@/discussions http://typedrawers.com/discussion/332/adobe-contributes-rasterizer-to-freetype-cff-on-the-web Wed, 01 May 2013 19:47:09 +0000 Technique and Theory James Puckett 332@/discussions Most corporate and government Windows XP desktop installs are likely upgrade to Windows 7/8 within the year. Will hinted CFF be a viable format for web fonts once the vast majority of IE users are running IE 9/Directwrite and most phones/tablets have better a better CFF rasterizer and a HIDPI screen? Will anyone care at that point, or will TTF have too much momentum to overcome (assuming that either Robohint or a working version of Fontlab 5.1 finally arrives)?]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/344/batch-ttx Tue, 07 May 2013 17:54:14 +0000 Software Stuart Sandler 344@/discussions
I need to run TTX on large folder full of fonts, just the basic OTF to TTX conversion . . . (to prepare for copyright filings, nothing sinister)

I'm on a Mac 10.6.8 and I am hoping some savvy Terminal user can advise the line of code I can use to make this happen.

Thanks kindly in advance and before you ask, I was unable to figure this out after some Google searches.]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/66/good-words-for-sketching-letters Sun, 20 May 2012 17:12:30 +0000 Technique and Theory James Puckett 66@/discussions http://typedrawers.com/discussion/337/after-the-adobecfffreetype-deal-would-you-still-ship-ttfs Sun, 05 May 2013 10:17:17 +0000 Technique and Theory yanone 337@/discussions James’ question turned much towards hinting details, I’ll re-ask the question in a more practical and also personal way:

After Adobe’s ace move to offer its CFF rasterizer to FreeType and with it the expectation that this rasterizer gets implemented in many devices and software in the near future, would you still care to ship TTFs altogether for a general purpose print/web typeface at this point?

As far as I understand, IE8 is the last major software to not support CFF-based web fonts. Its market share is currently at 5.5% according to this chart.

5.5% doesn’t qualify as negligible just yet, but that depends also on attitude. Are there any additional major software out there that I forgot that still require TTF?]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/335/font-menu-order-in-osx Fri, 03 May 2013 14:06:41 +0000 Technique and Theory Paul van der Laan 335@/discussions http://typedrawers.com/discussion/329/albuquerque-v0-012 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:15:14 +0000 Critiques—Type Design Tristan Bowersox 329@/discussions

This is a font I developed for a couple years, then put down for a year or two. I've decided it's time to finish it up. If you saw it on Typophile, it's gone through at least a couple revisions since I posted it there. I apologize that I don't have a working font file to make produce longer passages of text, but I'll do my best to put together samples by hand. I'm weighing my options for font software currently.

/g, /a, /e, and /k are collectively the thesis of the typeface, essentially. This is not to say they are above criticism, by any means, but if they seem out of place, it's the other characters' fault.





Don't hold back :)]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/323/windows-xp-in-heaven Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:45:32 +0000 Technique and Theory David Berlow 323@/discussions http://typedrawers.com/discussion/333/kind Thu, 02 May 2013 00:39:16 +0000 Critiques—Lettering and Calligraphy Tristan Bowersox 333@/discussions


]]> http://typedrawers.com/discussion/328/fl-5-14-bug-help Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:51:19 +0000 Software Ale Paul 328@/discussions Could someone tell me if you are experimenting the same?

First one is at the Preview windows > Opentype features.
img src="http://cdn.vanillaforums.com/typeboard.vanillaforums.com/FileUpload/28/252a9641411f274a562ad1b9655c3d.png" />

When I press Cmd+s the check marks dissapear.

img src="http://cdn.vanillaforums.com/typeboard.vanillaforums.com/FileUpload/7f/5843b0114b428d05854b6c793fdee9.png" />

The Second one is I do not see the class mark in the metrics windows (kerning). In the pict the "a" should be marked because is a class.

img src="http://cdn.vanillaforums.com/typeboard.vanillaforums.com/FileUpload/75/7dcdb4c511081620287c1b3f79ef71.png" />

Do you know any way to solve this?]]>