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Re: Best practices for multi-script families
There’s also the commercial perspective, of course. Nick already hinted at some aspects. Also, if you bundle everything in one font, then your pricing might be prohibitive for those licensees who onl…5 -
Re: Best practices for multi-script families
OK. There are three perspectives to consider when planning and distributing large multi-script families: * The designers' perspective. How many designers will be involved in the project? Will yo…8 -
New algorithm: Italify – optically corrected obliques
After almost four years of working on and off on an algorithmic approach to optically corrected obliques, the completely overhauled Italify is ready. With the initial version of the plugin, which is …9 -
Re: Hinting Variable Fonts
As part of the more general move towards Rust-based font tooling, I'm currently in the middle of porting ttfautohint to Rust. This won't allow us to autohint variable fonts immediately, but…7 -
Re: What is the South American "satillo" in shape and use?
Igor’s uppercase form look pretty good to me, but I don’t recall ever seeing the saltillo aligned to the x-height like that. Here are the Brill forms, including smallcap:5 -
Re: The Script Style of House Numbers
At the risk of veering off topic... It’s possible to have custom metal house numbers made from vector artwork at https://www.customhousenumbers.com/. I had some made last year for our house (see belo…5 -
Re: A New Type.lol - A type foundry index—and more!
Thinking aloud: If foundries want accurate information on aggregated sites, maybe there should be an openly defined data format for information that foundries would maintain themselves and that would…7 -
Re: What hobbies or activities do you do for a break?
walk the dogs board games Genealogy and family research. Eventually found my sister after several hundred hours of research, so that was cool.5 -
Commercial Support For Type
Hi All After 10 year with The Northern Block as Head of Operations, I am starting up on my own helping Type Designers/Foundries with the commercial side of the business. The aim is simple: help found…9 -
Re: Custom fonts that blend two existing typefaces — any other examples?
It’s possible to produce designs that differ in all sorts of ways — stroke modulation, construction, idiom — while retaining similar proportions and hence spacing/kerning. Also bear in mind that hist…6
