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Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
FontStudio had a great interface in general. Ernie Brock and Larry Applegate were really good at user interface. Later, their internal-only Chameleon editor tool was also super easy to use and intuit…1 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
I believe that Adobe owns FontStudio completely. I may well be the only person to license it from Adobe; I got permission to use it to teach a class in the spring of 1997. There was some sort of sign…2 -
Re: Icons to font file conversion
Yes. You can use Glyphs to build an icon font. Creating an icon webfont1 -
Re: Fontlab not responding
Your issue is using Fontlab VI. 7 or 8 are a lot better!1 -
Re: Small Capitals
One could also argue that Alutiiq orthography which uses the small capital R could use ʀ or even further argue that pre-1973 Greenlandic and pre-1980 Labrador Inuttitut orthographies could use ᴋ (as …1 -
Re: Why is my font ugly
Well, you've solved one problem. The upper-case eszet looks upper-case and looks like an eszet.2 -
Re: Grid Test of Letters
Possibly he had heard of what he calls "Grid Test" in some foreign language, and his translation of the name in that language into English does not match the English-language technical ter…1 -
Re: Grid Test of Letters
the left side of n and right side of u are constants.1 -
Re: Fontlab not responding
I strongly recommend posting your query to the FontLab Forum. You should also open a support ticket. Do you have the FontLab VI ‘Output’ panel open? This may provide feedback on the error, although i…3 -
Re: Grid Test of Letters
The right side of u is often a constant, but because it isn’t symetrical in a serif type, with serif at both top and bottom, there are designs in which uv uw uy might kern.3
