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Re: ‘Grand Cru Classés’ sprouting from Antwerp soil
Between 1740 and 1759, the punchcutter Jacques-François Rosart lived in the city of Haarlem. There he mainly worked for the type foundry of Johannes and Izaak Enschedé. Unfortunately, while he create…3 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
Note that the STIX Two fonts support IPA, so there is a functional reason for the /fhook is straight up and coordinated with the other letters. These days, I lean towards that as a default approach a…2 -
Re: Language-specific considerations/best practices
Christoph Koeberlin generously wrote up his approach to some extended characters when he published his extended Latin glyph sets along with his Pangea font family: https://github.com/koeberlin/Design…1 -
Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
We haven't received a request for a variable version of anything yet.2 -
Re: Why is my font ugly
The latest version (more grotesk) feels quite different from the latest 2020 version (more humanist) to me. We can continue to give detail-level feedback, but most importantly I think you need to dec…6 -
Re: Problems of overshoot (?)
Overshoots are such a complex topic I don't even know where to start... There are mainly 3 things affecting how overshoots end up working: - The design of your shapes - How you have defined your blue…1 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
BTW, the image above is from 1928 "1000 Practical Show Card Layouts" by H. C. Martin. If you like that kind of stuff, you may also like the stuff from Samuel Welo's books.2 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
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Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
Target (department stores) uses superior dollar signs and figures on their circulars. They have special custom fonts with superiors and other custom characters that they use internally. I’ve helped t…1 -
Re: Why is my font ugly
nice work. the /1 looks a bit top-heavy to me, perhaps widen the serif a little and/or reduce the length of the upper diagonal stroke a little? check the baseline of the digits as well, there are som…1
