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Re: Critique Request for Hibur Mono (a new Ethiopic Typeface)
It seems like you have remained strictly monoline, even when needing to squeeze four vertical elements in a glyph. This leads to those glyphs getting quite dark, and maybe somewhat less legible. I fi…5 -
Re: A new Wakamai Fondue
Currently there is no guide, but you're comfortable in HTML/JS/CSS you could either clone the Wakamai Fondue website and use that as a basis to create your own version to be incorporated in any …5 -
Re: Seminar on May 21: BULLETPROOF YOUR FONT LICENCES
We shouldn't gate-keep, James. Are we not supposed to help new designers?? There are many people starting up and are hard pressed to figure things out. There are also experienced foundries who s…5 -
Photo Lettering by Bruno specimen book
I just wanted to share a fun find that I don't believe I've run into anywhere online. It's a specimen book put out by the Linotype Composition Company of Baltimore, Maryland, a photo t…8 -
Re: CIↃ in print
Something like these?* https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=aeu.ark:/13960/t3kw6dx9j&seq=11 * https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8wznQSXf6xMC/page/n5/mode/2up5 -
Re: Anyone paint as an outlet?
As for ways the skills of painting/drawing might have a bearing on type design, I think the biggest thing is training the eye to see visual forms. Type design (except for the sketching part) is more …5 -
Re: Textura Eszett
Drawn a few recently, for a somewhat psychedelic blackletter that I'm close to finishing. From top to bottom: lowercase, default Fraktur caps, simplified caps, Lombardic caps.6 -
Re: The Script Style of House Numbers
Some DIY that I found delightful: a fraction made from another "1". Royal Street, New Orleans.7 -
Textura Eszett
My latest project, Puffery, updates the “Olde English” style of blackletter with Roman-based capitals—providing better legibility for those unfamiliar with the classic Fraktur capitals, and also to e…8 -
30th anniversary of OpenType (May 6)
For the 20th anniversary, I joked that maybe by the 25th anniversary, basic OpenType features would finally work consistently in PowerPoint. For the 25th anniversary, I joked that maybe by the 30th a…6
