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There’s a tendency in digital type design to regularise alignment, which in practice means that shapes either overshoot or do not and, if they overshoot, all overshoot by the same amount (excepting, … (View Post)

@"Franz Gratzer" The FontForge team once discussed whether they should revive the contrib directory. I guess that this would be the place where such scripts should be published. As long as … (View Post)

Sometimes this happens inline (Comment_56232), sometimes it breaks a paragraph (Comment_56515). I have seen such cases more and more over the last month. This is what happens when editing such a post: (View Post)

The Society of Scribes presents a year-long lecture series
on “The Age of the Writing Master and the Origins of English Roundhand.” 
 
Don’t know your Van de Velde from your M… (View Post)

Are websites that generate specimens an effective way to avoid caching issues when updating and re-generating fonts? (I'm used to generating to the Adobe fonts folder to avoid cache problems, but I a… (View Post)

Twitter is a good place to follow along with all the type designers, useful info, gossip, humor, the odd fight, etc :)  (View Post)

No such collection could hope to be comprehensive, but here's my "Type & Design" list on Twitter. It's heavy on foundries and individual type designers.https://twitter.com/i/lists/88331… (View Post)

In my quest to create a decentralized ecosystem for selling fonts, I’m excited to announce the next link in the chain: Type.World Sign-In. Blog post with 3min video: https://type.world/blog/typeworld… (View Post)

https://www.typography.guru has a more active German language counterpart, https://www.typografie.info/ (View Post)

I do hang out in the typography reddit on occasion, but for the most part it is populated by laymen and beginners. That's fine, of course, but I never really found any discussion or feedback remotely… (View Post)