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Re: Fontlab export OTF problems (missing letters and styles)
One plausible explanation of your "s" problem is that you have accidentally duplicated the entire contour, over top of itself—but as a separate element, in which case remove overlap wouldn’…1 -
Re: What about Crimson Text and Crimson Pro?
No, it isn’t. Adobe Text is based on 18th Century English types: essentially, it is a Caslon with a Baskerville modulation axis.5 -
Re: What about Crimson Text and Crimson Pro?
For most of the people that's not deep into typography or type design, all sans and serif (non display fonts) looks about the same. Just pick the one that YOU-YOURSELF like the most.3 -
Re: What about Crimson Text and Crimson Pro?
Personally, I make a distinction between “quality fonts” and “comparable to commercial alternatives such as Minion.” There are a lot of fonts that I think are “quality fonts” that are not at the same…1 -
Re: What about Crimson Text and Crimson Pro?
I think it's strange that they have the same name, as they are giving off pretty different vibes. Crimson Text feels more classical, like a Garamond of sorts, and I could see it being used in a …1 -
Re: Recommendations on building a foundry website
My website uses Fontdue as well, incorporated into a site I built with Webflow. The relative ease of both of those tools meant I could figure out how to design and construct it myself, which I enjoye…7 -
Re: Brab - a Sans Typeface
Nice!—but the nadir of the M bothers me. Could you make it a bit sharper, maybe thin the diagonals slightly, narrow the glyph a tad? (Compare how nuanced/thinned the curved joint of B is.)2 -
Re: Calibri Strikes Again
As Homer Simpson would say, “Fonts. Is there anything they can’t do?”1 -
Re: Calibri Strikes Again
'There's actually people, by the way, who design fonts.' I always love to say this to people :)1 -
Re: Adobe Fonts (Creative Cloud license)
All fonts used through Adobe Fonts share the same Service Terms of Use. Anecdotally, I vaguely recall a foundry or two that attempted to assert their own limitations elsewhere (e.g. “If you use our f…4
