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Re: Italics workflow
Don't slant by center of selection. You will get different relative horizontal shifts depending on the height of the glyph. For instance, a tall glyph will effectively be shifted more to the left tha…4 -
Re: Dropped small-caps parens
The issue I’ve run into when using GPOS for things like this is that some extra-font rendering elements end up inheriting the re-positioning. The classic example is the underlining in InDesign. Grant…5 -
Re: Unnamed Sans (?)
I like it. But the massive x-height combined with the flared terminals and gaping apertures on S, a and e make it feel like those weird fonts ITC did in the 70s and 80s rather than wood type.5 -
Re: Is type hinting for screens still relevant? Should new type designers learn it?
one thing I did not mention in my last post. Worse than no hinting, is bad autohinting. The samples shown here, I collected, all equate to a horror show of bad autohinting. fonts with quality like th…7 -
Re: Darden Studio launches full testing fonts
We offer demo fonts on Fontspring as well. These are stripped down versions, and are not universally available from all vendors. Some highlights from my research: 1. Roughly 4-7% of customers who dow…10 -
Re: Darden Studio launches full testing fonts
I have done significant data analysis of buying patterns and who font-buying designers really are. Considering your library and who I think your customers are, this experiment is spot on. I predict t…6 -
Re: Technical Trivial Facts (.ttf)
they used Superpropagator ;-)5 -
Re: Technical Trivial Facts (.ttf)
After an exhausting expedition of more than six months –and at the brink of giving up– the explorers of the World Typelife Fund (WTF) were utterly relieved to trace a type designer whose brain was la…5 -
Darden Studio launches full testing fonts
Yesterday we launched a new feature on our website. All fonts are available for testing. Licenses are perpetual and for the complete version of the full family. This is an experiment partly in licens…17 -
Underware releases "Zeitung" family with Variable Font + Adobe CC plugin
http://www.underware.nl/fonts/zeitung/features/Flex/ is interesting - a Adobe CC plugin to make Variable Fonts 'work today' :) The http://www.underware.nl homepage is also great :)5
