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Re: Text Heavy: The Art of Type Design by Nick Shinn
The RCA/ARC website, and my own, are somewhat lacking in promoting or discussing the show. We have done some promotion (e.g. a video on social media), but it has been work enough to put the show toge…2 -
Re: IntegerStemFinder
A small visual fix. Now, when you add intermediate master for a non-linear progression (and stem value and weight position are the same as interpolated), the handle (of stems curve graph) no longer j…1 -
Latin One: 6-week hybrid type design course starting Jan 21, 2026
Nicole Dotin and I are excited to announce the next edition of Latin One, part of the Practica Program — now in its 6th year supporting type designers around the world. What’s new this time? Latin On…1 -
Re: Family Stem Weights Calculator
All those nice formulas work as a charm for sansserif typefaces. Any thoughts for serifed ones ?3 -
Re: Glare of white 100% backgrounds and how it affects fonts
I use a slightly off-white background in glyphs when designing type.1 -
Re: Glare of white 100% backgrounds and how it affects fonts
Erik Van Blokland explained this very well recently, in the context of signage lettering: In FontLab, I set my background colour to a cream colour, emulating a nice warm paper.3 -
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…7 -
Re: Help Typedrawers find a new home
Looks like Discourse might be the answer. I'll look into it.1 -
Re: Mixing and matching italic and roman shapes in cyrillic fonts
Can't recall which David Lodge novel this is from, but the exchange went something like this: "A novelist, eh? And what sort of novels do you write?" "Chiefly experimental fiction.&quo…4 -
Re: Helvetica Semi-Mono (?)
As with all my type design endeavors, there is really no point to this. I’m a musician first, graphic design is somewhere down the list, and type design is nothing more than a hobby. A friend comment…3
