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Re: Early access or beta releases à la futurefonts.xyz
Also think it's worth noting that FutureFonts is pretty darn selective about which fonts they accept on their platform. I've had two projects rejected, at least one of which I think was well executed…9 -
Re: Early access or beta releases à la futurefonts.xyz
Noah, the issues you describe are exactly why, in my opinion, using a dedicated-to-the-concept site like Future Fonts is a much better idea than trying to do something similar on one’s own. They go t…4 -
Re: Adam Savage from Mythbusters on fonts.
The presentation given by Underware at ATypI last week of their new handwriting font, Scribo, also presented a variable font technique they have been working on to simulate animated handwriting with …3 -
Re: Platform for Publishing Research Article
Wherever you post it, posting a link on Mastodon typo.social could help your article reach the typographic hoi poloi.1 -
Re: Glyphs (characters) alternative
I use Inkscape a lot, and it’s one of my favorite OSS apps, the other being Paint.NET. The current Inkscape builds have quite formidable support for OpenType features, and they can export for Cricut.…2 -
Serif Magazine (90s)
D. A. Hosek (former editor of Serif) is looking to get rid of a couple boxes of Serif issues, if anyone is interested. https://www.reddit.com/r/typography/comments/13epzdp/serif_magazine_prepping_for…1 -
Re: Glyphs (characters) alternative
You make a good argument. :-) If there are commonly-used apps which have no glyph palette and all you have is charmap, then yes, shake your fist, curse all software, and encode everything in PUA.2 -
Re: Glyphs (characters) alternative
@"Simon Cozens" I appreciate your perspective on this, and I can understand where you're coming from. However, I'd like to point out that there is indeed a vast and often overlooked font ma…6 -
Re: Can the custom fonts be installed into Iphone/Ipad???
iFont works pretty well for me: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ifont-find-install-any-font/id1173222289 It works with OTF and TTF fonts.6 -
Re: The LeMo Method
Present-day type designers will in most cases adjust the fitting/spacing to the design of the letters. And then they will focus on the equilibrium of white space: If the n has symmetrical serifs, as s…1
