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Re: Directory of typeface sellers
Village is no longer in operation. If you follow the link, the announcement also includes links to where you can find the former fonts and foundries of vllg.com.7 -
Re: Designing slash glyphs in heavy weights
I recently got the advice to make the ø look like it's just a regular o with a slash. Obviously, it can't actually be that, but it can still make that optical impression.5 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
I remember using tissue paper over a photocopy of the art to spec irregular run arounds, ruling out lines with a pencil to match the line spacing, and then marking where line endings would go on each…7 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
Very clever Mark. I had no access to such tools (back then I didn't even know what a spreadsheet was). I just measured the width of each line as it met the art, calculated how many characters wo…1 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
I also made a spreadsheet for doing copyfitting, yet another happily forgotten task of designers before desktop publishing.4 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
In the brief period between the introduction of the Mac and the advent of desktop publishing and apps like PageMaker, I made this Microsoft Multiplan spreadsheet (September 1984) to calculate "m…8 -
Re: 123RF
No, and I would not consider doing so. A buyer can currently buy one of your fonts for as little as $7.50USD or maybe less. Their site makes it appear that they control pricing, not you.2 -
Re: the OpenType features UI questionnaire /Q2
When I started adding OT features in the mid-2000s, there were some popular apps, like MS Office and Flash, with poor or nonexistent OT support. So I made "supplemental" fonts where certain…2 -
Re: METAFONT in 2023: "Nupuram" (Malayalam) typeface by Santhosh Thottingal
@"Linus Romer" , It is not related. That project is work in progress from what I understand. There is no font released. It uses fontforge to import outlines from an SVG generated from metap…6 -
Re: Late 1970s to Early 1980s typesetting
Spec'ing type to run around an irregular shape (photo, art, whatever)—especially when the text had to fill a certain amount of area—was a dark art. Today, the computer can do it interactively as…4
