Mark Simonson

A very brief overview: There are probably as many ways as there are type designers, but a common general method is to sketch and plan out ideas on paper (loose or tight as you require) and then cons… (View Post)

I haven't used FontLab for a while now and there's so much I've forgotten, but a thing I remember doing to avoid this kind of problem: When you define kerning classes, make sure they only are used fo… (View Post)

Interesting start. It probably wouldn't be practical to develop a font entirely on such a small screen (I find the bigger the screen the better), but it could be useful. (Personally, I find that a sm… (View Post)

Having a 27" retina screen has drastically reduced the number of printouts I need to make when kerning. (View Post)

In Glyphs, you can set up any number of custom kerning strings in a text file (or multiple text files), including multi-line samples. In the past, I used InDesign documents for checking kerning, but … (View Post)