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Re: hebrew type design workshops?
I made a couple of online workshops (quite a) few years ago. If you don't find anything available I can guide you personally free of charge.1 -
Re: Helvetica Semi-Mono (?)
Yes, that’s what I mentioned above. It’s especially useful for double-m; it works because you never get three /m’s in a row, and the adjacent letters are usually vowels.2 -
Re: Type-X, a Chrome extension to test your fonts on any website
Glad you like it @"Miles Newlyn"! It's @"Stephen Nixon" who initiated the project and @"Simon Cozens" who pulled it out of retirement, with @"Dave Crossland" t…1 -
Re: three-text: a 3D font rendering and text layout library for the web
This looks amazing! It reminds me of some of the type tools published by DIA/MNKY Type: https://tools.dia.tv/ Maybe you know of these already? I'm not too familiar with any of these tools, but I just…1 -
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…7 -
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…3 -
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: Helvetica Semi-Mono (?)
Covik Sans Mono uses 300, 600, 900 units as widths, i.e. strict multiples of its minimum width. This results in a particular spacing where different letters start in the same horizontal position in c…2 -
Re: BitFonter 3 font point and pixel size
That also gets complicated. The CSS reference pixel is usually reckoned as 1/96 inch, but for text this gets interpreted within the unit scaling model used by individual environments. Apple still mai…2 -
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
