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Re: Historical examples of serpentine-shaped /one
The J-like 1 is very common in the 17th and 18th Centuries in the Netherlands and England, especially in the more upright styles. It is a frequent form in the copybooks of English writing masters, as…9 -
A new Wakamai Fondue
Hi everybody, a new version of Wakamai Fondue was just released at the Fontstand conference in Berlin: https://wakamaifondue.com It's now using LibFont instead of Fontkit which allows me to dig …12 -
Re: New algorithm: Italify – optically corrected obliques
@SCarewe We are not used to such a unpleasant tone on this forum.5 -
Re: What is the South American "satillo" in shape and use?
At last year’s Face/Interface conference, Mexican designer Manuel López Rocha spoke about designing for indigenous South American language communities. He touched on the importance of the saltillo. I…5 -
Re: Commissioned Retail Font: questions/seeking advice
My comment exactly. The budget is a magnitude too small, regardless of retail projections. I don't blame buyers, either, because there's a lot of this "36 days of type", "you…6 -
Re: What is the South American "satillo" in shape and use?
What?! I don’t know where you went to school or who you’ve been talking to, but I’ve always considered the area called Central America to be part of the North American continent. I don’t think I’m th…5 -
Re: Redraw vs adjusting font (which is faster/easier?)
At first I was going to say starting over might be a good idea, but thinking back, I’ve never actually done that on any of my fonts, even ones that were substantially different from each other, such …5 -
Re: New algorithm: Italify – optically corrected obliques
Thomas, thanks for the pointers. I checked again for the handle relations my algorithm produces – indeed these lead to kinks if there is a continuous slant axis interpolation. Finally, an objective r…5 -
Re: Redraw vs adjusting font (which is faster/easier?)
I think it depends on the skill gap from when you initially created the typeface. I've had some designs where a full reconstruction was the only practical course. In cases where the original typ…7 -
Re: New algorithm: Italify – optically corrected obliques
Re. nodes at extrema, note that a lot of us are generating both TTF and CFF from our design sources, and failing to put nodes at curve extrema in TrueType messes up bounding box calculations. That’s …6
