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Text Heavy: The Art of Type Design by Nick Shinn
Opening: Friday November 14 at 7:00 pm Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts 50 Sussex Drive, Ottawa November 17—28, 10 am to 4 pm (Closed Sundays) This is an exhibition of my work, at an art gallery in…5 -
Re: Family Stem Weights Calculator
I needed this at the weekend so I made a new web version of it: https://www.diacritics.club/family-steps Thanks @"Linus Romer" for the detailed explanations!5 -
Re: Text Heavy: The Art of Type Design by Nick Shinn
Congratulations, Nick.6 -
Re: Panose: is there a purpose for it nowadays?
In the past, I believe Panose values were required for monospaced fonts to appear in certain code apps on Windows. However, in recent testing, I couldn’t find modern apps that required it. github.com…5 -
three-text: a 3D font rendering and text layout library for the web
Hi all, I wanted to share a tool I just published that might be of interest to this community. it's a web based 3D font renderer built for three.js (although it may expand to other/no frameworks) and…8 -
Re: Helvetica Semi-Mono (?)
Just as an aside, but maybe useful to your project, @"Evie S.": David Jonathan Ross recently wrote a lot about width systems for monospaced type design in the notes for his latest Font of t…7 -
Re: Panose: is there a purpose for it nowadays?
We added Panose values back to some of our fonts because certain weights weren't showing up in font menus in Word / Windows 2010. Adding the values (presumably the 'weight' value) was what fixed it. …6 -
Re: Helvetica Semi-Mono (?)
How many different glyph widths are you going for? Some later electric typewriters used unit systems for proportional spacing, e.g. the IBM Electronic Typewriter 50 hat a 7 unit system, of which each…9 -
FontJit, a tiny utility to lazy load fonts
For whom it might interest, I just released a tiny little font loader to be used on websites where you want to be in control of loading the font: FontJit. Because it doesn't make sense to show the te…9 -
Re: GSUB: replace by nothing, a.k.a. deleting a glyph.
Even though the OpenType specification prohibits it, FontCreator allows you to define entries in a multiple substitution lookup with no output glyphs. This is a trick to delete glyphs, and seems to b…5
