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Re: A new Wakamai Fondue
Currently there is no guide, but you're comfortable in HTML/JS/CSS you could either clone the Wakamai Fondue website and use that as a basis to create your own version to be incorporated in any …5 -
Re: Seminar on May 21: BULLETPROOF YOUR FONT LICENCES
We shouldn't gate-keep, James. Are we not supposed to help new designers?? There are many people starting up and are hard pressed to figure things out. There are also experienced foundries who s…5 -
Photo Lettering by Bruno specimen book
I just wanted to share a fun find that I don't believe I've run into anywhere online. It's a specimen book put out by the Linotype Composition Company of Baltimore, Maryland, a photo t…8 -
Re: CIↃ in print
Something like these?* https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=aeu.ark:/13960/t3kw6dx9j&seq=11 * https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8wznQSXf6xMC/page/n5/mode/2up5 -
Re: Anyone paint as an outlet?
As for ways the skills of painting/drawing might have a bearing on type design, I think the biggest thing is training the eye to see visual forms. Type design (except for the sketching part) is more …5 -
Re: Textura Eszett
Drawn a few recently, for a somewhat psychedelic blackletter that I'm close to finishing. From top to bottom: lowercase, default Fraktur caps, simplified caps, Lombardic caps.6 -
Re: The Script Style of House Numbers
Some DIY that I found delightful: a fraction made from another "1". Royal Street, New Orleans.7 -
Textura Eszett
My latest project, Puffery, updates the “Olde English” style of blackletter with Roman-based capitals—providing better legibility for those unfamiliar with the classic Fraktur capitals, and also to e…8 -
30th anniversary of OpenType (May 6)
For the 20th anniversary, I joked that maybe by the 25th anniversary, basic OpenType features would finally work consistently in PowerPoint. For the 25th anniversary, I joked that maybe by the 30th a…6 -
Re: State of the art in AI image generation as we go into 2026.
Google Fonts are under the Open Font License, so doesn’t restrict any kind of use. What’s interesting about that license is that it permits creation of derivative works so long as those are also unde…5
