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2024 Fundraising & Improvements.
It’s that time of the year again; the time of year when I promise TypeDrawers will improve and it doesn’t. This year, we’re in luck! Fontspring/Creative Market paid the bills for us so anything we ta…5 -
Re: Altamira
The lowercase a and t are so distinctive and strongly flavoured that the conventionality of the most other letters, especially the uppercase, seems disappointing. There is a promise in the first imag…5 -
Re: Eula for Limited-Exclusive License
Consider also adding a non-automatic renewal of exclusivity option. Typically, this would be something like extending the period for exclusivity for another three years if they a) give you notice of …8 -
Re: How to make .slf font file?
https://xkcd.com/927/8 -
Re: Recommendations on building a foundry website
Whichever technology you use, my recommendation is that you make the “add to cart” or “Buy” button clearly visible. When I was researching the top foundry sites for the seminar I gave in December I w…6 -
Re: Recommendations on building a foundry website
We went the custom route, and launched our new website on Monday. It is definitely the more expensive and time-consuming approach, but meant we had a lot of flexibility in developing a back-end that …5 -
Re: Panose: is there a purpose for it nowadays?
I’m not aware of any automated tools that can verify a font’s Panose data. We considered adding a Panose-calculation feature to FontCreator but never implemented it. Over the past two decades, users …6 -
Re: Panose: is there a purpose for it nowadays?
I have never met a graphic designer who has even heard of PANOSE (or at least never mentioned it). Nor has anyone ever complained to me about not having PANOSE values in my fonts.5 -
Re: GPSR regulations in relation to font production and selling
Until I get a letter from the EU telling me to stop nothing will be changing here. I'm not going to play pretend lawyer and act like I know what this law actually means.6 -
Re: Identifying the fonts of the movie The Hunt for Red October
Hi Vasil. TypeDrawers members are encouraged to use dedicated forums (such as Font ID) and tools (such as WTF) for typeface identification. And here are some tips for getting better at doing it yours…6
