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Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
For my original retail designs, I do usually start from scratch. However, I find that corporate clients who ask for custom designs generally want something that looks a lot like something else. In th…2 -
Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
I forgot to mention that, like Mark, I also sometimes start from one of my previous fonts, with a new idea. (I'm not a professionnal, I must add.)1 -
Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
I always start from scratch. With an idea to create something new!! The exceptions being revivals of 1900 fonts, scanned and digitized. Why reuse or repurpose existing fonts? There are tons and tons …1 -
Re: Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
I almost never use my previous font projects in new font projects, unless they are related in some way. For example, I adapted my recent Proxima Sera from a draft of an unfinished face. I nearly alwa…4 -
Re: Why don't we hear about more use of variable fonts on the Web?
No, I recommend to provide all OpenType fonts (both non-variable and variable) for web use as both .woff and .woff2. You could argue if .woff is still needed, but it won't harm to provide it as well.…2 -
Re: Why don't we hear about more use of variable fonts on the Web?
Glyphs 3 has supported woff or woff2 compression in variable fonts for a while - but it will result in a binary that is about 5% slightly larger than running `woff2_compress` directly on a TTF. Not …2 -
Re: Why don't we hear about more use of variable fonts on the Web?
If you are exporting your variable fonts as TTFs, I would recommend then converting them to woff or woff2 (both for added compression and to slightly deter direct downloads). Some type design softwa…1 -
Re: Why don't we hear about more use of variable fonts on the Web?
The biggest issue with commercial adaptation of variable fonts is still pricing. I've recently been contemplating if VF pricing should separate between desktop and web use. The desktop version ought …2 -
Re: Why don't we hear about more use of variable fonts on the Web?
No. Similar to non-variable fonts, there are two flavours (quadratic versus cubic bezier curves), but that is taken care of internally in the font resource. Variable fonts with quadratic based outlin…2 -
Re: Learn Script : Tool to help type designer to develop other scripts
(Just a quick note: Alexei Vanyashin updated Cormorant on the GitHub repo after Ilya's review. We fixed some things, but left other things in place because they were deliberate choices, such as the s…2