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Re: Can my variable font axis snap instead of slide?
At the font-internal level, there are essentially two ways to do this. One is to set your avar table mapping such that an entire input range maps to a single value. There will be some unavoidable tin…1 -
Re: Typeface timeline
That’s an easy one to answer: 1985, when Emigre showed designers that they could design, build, test, and release typefaces on their own (albeit with the tedious work of putting the fonts on floppie…3 -
Re: On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)
Historically they had vertical overlap (undercut) in the 16th, 17th century. Also they mixed fonts with different baselines, e.g. 14 pt for emphasis within 12 pt text. Maybe they puzzled it together …1 -
Re: Ukrainian її — preferred presentation?
I hate to go personal, but it seems like I have to (why?). My father is ethnically Russian, hence the surname, my mother is Ukrainian. Yes, I happened to be born in the USSR on the territory of mode…3 -
Re: Is there a tool for creating VF animated images?
Wouldn't it be easiest to just take a screen capture from Font Gauntlet and convert that to gif?3 -
Re: Type Design Project Opinion
The Black looks very different from the Light; it's hard to believe they belong to the same typeface. Unlike the Light, the Black looks very wide, blobby, and contrasted. Look at professional typefac…2 -
Re: Type Design Project Opinion
The “conventional” way (though not the only one) to approach the very-heavy S is to put the full weight on the spine, and let the top and bottom be a bit thinner. At the very least, you need to move …1 -
Re: Is there a tool for creating VF animated images?
Of those, Drawbot is much easier described as "a simple tool" (from my impressions anyway).2 -
Re: Is there a tool for creating VF animated images?
There's ColdType https://github.com/coldtype/coldtype And there's DrawBot https://learn.adafruit.com/getting-started-with-drawbot/animation4 -
Re: Type Design Project Opinion
I found this graphic by Adrian Fruitger helpful in my early days in type design. Perhaps you will find it helpful as well.6
