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Don’t forget the ℗ character, it is needed in colophones of audio editions (“Production”, UC 2117). (View Post)

I just love how this is a somewhat ambiguous space. I had a lot of fun with these :) (View Post)


In OCR-B, Adrian Frutiger made the numbers taller than cap height. This was to enhance the differentiation between letters and numbers needed for machine reading at the time. (View Post)

My approach is to keep them clear and simple, but harmonious to the style of the font. I usually do the ® as a superscript since, like ™, it's almost always used this way. True, you can always apply … (View Post)

@"Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.)" The group of people who can making a living exclusively off fonts has always been small. Always. My studio is in that group and even I can't exactly say ho… (View Post)

Old enough to remember the Adjectival Times, before creative became a noun. (View Post)

While such a tool makes it easier for the general public to rip webfonts, it should be noted that there's no real need for any special tool. Whenever you go to a website, the server sends the webfont… (View Post)

One of the cool things about type design, I think, is that it is always at this border between systematic and 'non-systematic' (or mathematical and visual, if you will). Sometimes I start visually, a… (View Post)

Hrant, the main purpose of TypeCooker isn't to replicate a real-world brief; it’s to help you imagine and practice different ways of drawing letters. Many type designers and lettering artists get cau… (View Post)

There are a number of guidelines in this video that might help. I am noticing particularly your curve-to-straight transitions, and curve-joining-a-stem intersections—and there are probably other issu… (View Post)