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Need a Foundry Website? Font Bros Has You Covered!
Oftentimes we’re asked the question, “What value does a distributor bring to the table for the percentage they keep?” Sometimes it’s eyeballs, sometimes it’s handling license upgrades, but rarely is …3 -
Re: Big Sur and font suitcase files
Be careful when accessing classic font suitcases on macOS Tahoe 25.1/25.2 — this may cause a macOS kernel panic. For instance selecting a resource fork font suitcase located on an external drive in F…2 -
Re: Recommendations on building a foundry website
https://ashler.design has also done a few foundry sites2 -
Re: How much creative freedom in drawing currency symbols
What I think I said is that they had created a coloured version of the dirham symbol that was intended to be used as a logo. This was in addition to a monochrome version to be used as a typical curr…2 -
Re: How much creative freedom in drawing currency symbols
For authoritarian states coming up with their own currency symbols, in my open source fonts I tend to just slap in the official drawings without any adjustments.5 -
Announcing Type Advisor
ADVERTISEMENT--- Working and being friends with so many type designers in the industry, I have noticed that often why you got into type design was, well, to design type. Not to make a website. Not to…11 -
An informal research poll regarding type designers
I have a premise I would like to explore: that a typical type designer is a younger child in their family, meaning they usually have older siblings. I made a very informal poll to see what the number…3 -
Re: Fontlab 7 vs Monotype's Font Validator
I've had a similar problem. It ended up being a glitch from the MyFonts/Fonts.com database merger a few years ago. They're apparently not easy to fix.1 -
Re: Fontlab 7 vs Monotype's Font Validator
It sounds like it might be an issue on their side. Possibly their website back end is not replacing the old files, but trying to add the new ones as duplicates, triggering these kind of warnings. I h…2 -
Re: Fontlab 7 vs Monotype's Font Validator
Nobody would be able to tell for sure if it was something wrong with the new font files in this regard, without you sharing the “version name”* and PostScript name entries for the new fonts. (Name ID…2
