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It depends on what route you take to export your instances. FontCreator allows you to export your instances and optionally removes overlap on the fly. It is always wise to double-check your exported … (View Post)

The OTM Text Viewer tool is quite useful for examining the interaction of individual layout features with the shaping engine, but it doesn’t provide the kind of information @"WAY KYI" is se… (View Post)

This week, I have been reading a book set in Adobe Caslon and it reminded me that the problem I have with the Th ligature is not its existence but that it is too tightly compressed horizontally: the … (View Post)

I would really love to have a similar step-by-step debugger for DirectWrite, because there are sometimes some unexpected differences between that and other engines. (Crowbar uses Harfbuzz.) I don't k… (View Post)

This may help: http://corvelsoftware.co.uk/crowbar/ Note that reordering is performed by the shaper after the codepoints have been mapped to glyphs (although the shaper internally remembers the initi… (View Post)


Naw, their prices have always been 2–10x higher than the rest of the market. I think @"Jasper de Waard" has it right, at least in TEFF’s case. They prefer their fonts be used by a … (View Post)

TEFF’s Trinité and dfType’s Rialto remain on my wishlist to license one day. Their beauty is singular, like a Wiesmann or Spyker automobile. I don’t want to see them driving all over every road. (View Post)

KP said: Not a valid comparison, unless I position the foundry as a luxury brand of expensive fonts, and also sell, say, chewing gum. On the other hand, I suppose you could say that the luxury produc… (View Post)

I struggle to apply the word luxury to a font. The concept just doesn't fit - it's simply not a meaningful adjective to use. For some, a banana might be a luxury, for others a Ferrari. Perhaps a hot … (View Post)

If we want to talk about exclusivity in the context of typefaces and fonts, that is something that is meaningful, because typography is a voice and customers often want a distinctive voice, one that … (View Post)