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Something I think needs to be said in this thread, even though its said often elsewhere, is that retail fonts take a long time to start selling in a noticeable way. I know retail is only part of the … (View Post)

IIRC, Orator is a small caps only font. My free font "Conta Mono SC" may be similar enough, and it supports Hawaiian: https://github.com/jenskutilek/quarantine-fonts/tree/master/fonts_web I… (View Post)

Hello, TypeDrawers community! I thought some of you might be interested to know that my book Standby, which I've been working on for eight years, is out today. The book is not about typography — it f… (View Post)

No - at least, not if I were to place a realistic value my time. I run a part-time, one-man foundry and started making fonts in the 1990s, offering them for sale from 2005. Some of my output has been… (View Post)

Now, see, I have a problem with this. Sure, there is a relationship between promotion and sales. But the entire point of reseller sites is that people go to them and search for something that fits th… (View Post)

Great! Now German navigation elements almost fit! (View Post)

The mottled and overlapped hat in the same ink suggests to me this was lithographed, not letterpressed. I would guess there won't be a metal-type "smoking gun" here. (View Post)

If the fonts were illegitimate copies of Monotype’s products, Monotype would not allow them to be sold on MyFonts.com. The terms by which many pre-digital fonts were digitized in the mid-1990s gave o… (View Post)

Nowadays designers work too much by numbers. Equal stem widths for example. As if they don't trust their eyes anymore. (View Post)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3bw0bxwgVk Aftereffects plug-in for VF support (View Post)