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Yes, visiting the designer or foundry is always the best place to start. If their fonts are not available directly, they will usually link to the provider that benefits them most. If you're seeking r… (View Post)

I recommend also taking a course, in the real world. That way your teacher can look at your work and tell you what you’re doing wrong, and how to remedy that, and where improvements can be made. Call… (View Post)

A solution: layout applications to apply Optical Kerning between roman and italic fonts, by default. (View Post)

Contrary to what Mark learned, the scheme advocated by The Chicago Manual of Style (15th Edition, 2003, anyway; not sure if they changed in the 17th) is that “all punctuation marks should appear in t… (View Post)


Kerning does not work between different instances of a variable font, sorry. (View Post)

In my opinion, one thing that makes designing ligatures tricky is the fact that the apparent whitespace is extremely size-sensitive. What may seem like the sweet point at the extremely large sizes at… (View Post)


Not for many people around the world. Low resolution screens will be around for a long, long time to come. Why should those users suffer at the hands of poorer rendering because we 'lucky' o… (View Post)

It would similarly be simpler if there were only one operating system. Or only one font editor. Or only one word processor. But good luck on getting people to agree on *which* one. (View Post)

Hi Michael, Your design seems to contain many options for different directions; hence, it could be considered a template for a couple of typefaces. Looking at your figures, you seem to be inspired by … (View Post)

Yes. Everything after the first . is ignored by Acrobat name-to-character parsing. (View Post)