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Mac font suitcase files are still recognized and supported on macOS Big Sur (11.x), but not over local networks anymore. The apparent reason for this is Apple reducing support for AFP (Apple Filing P… (View Post)

I was looking at this again and realized I missed something. That red line under the names of the precomposed glyphs suggests a mismatch between the glyph names (which are OK) and the encoding. So th… (View Post)

I recommend you read Frank Blokland's https://www.lettermodel.org and play with the software he developed/inspired to operationalize his theory. (View Post)

Hi ! I was working for about a week on another Quatrocento project. Some times ago I designed Uccello based on the Jenson Roman. Now I am trying to do something around Griffo's typeface for Pietro Be… (View Post)

We started with autotracing from old ATF scans and then redrawing new shapes but keeping the autotracing shape in the background layer as reference for most of out libre series: libre caslon, libre b… (View Post)


 I will point out that darkness was parametrized in Knuth's METAFONT. Different modes in MF produce blacker fonts for different printers (cf. the lexmarkr mode). But when BlueSky made their … (View Post)

Tal Leming's http://opentypecookbook.com/ is another resource worth checking out to wrap your head around writing OT features (View Post)

Copying an old printed text sample, revival or restoration, needs to take account of the two media it bridges. —Stanley Morison, A Tally of Types The gulf between metal and digital typography cannot … (View Post)