Best Of
-
Re: Platonic Ideals in Typography
The needs that typefaces are intended to fulfill, the expressive characters of different shapes, and the genres of type design are all so multiform that talk of a singular perfect ideal strikes me as…7 -
Re: Applications without OpenType feature support
Also, I think Affinity tools remain sadly lacking in any complex script support, and with no easy path to adding it due to insistence on making their own text engine instead of utilising HarfBuzz.3 -
Re: Practica: 6- and 15-week online type design courses
I haven't participated in Practica, but I have seen Nicole Dotin's teaching abilities in motion: In a type design course I teach at my university, I have hired her as an outside expert to o…1 -
Re: Variable Fonts In Use
Goodhertz uses variable fonts so extensively that they developed an open-source engine that can animate them. In Tupe, they used a variable font to communicate the level of the effects. More subtly, …3 -
Re: Monotype Foundry Support Irresponsibility
Based on both my experience and feedback from a colleague, I've noticed that increasing the frequency of your requests can lead to quicker response times. However, it's crucial to maintain …1 -
Re: Is using diacritics as a design choice in bad taste?
For example, I am mostly getting my inspiration from The Land, which is a marketing campaign done by a German state. They use the umlaut (I think I got that right) and bright yellow as "tradema…1 -
Re: Some glyphs (made with FontForge) aren't showing in Adobe Illustrator
Yes, it was a bug once in my life (if I remember correctly related to the saved file after FF crash). Today when I tried to assign an existing unicode number to a glyph in the editor, Fontforge warn…1 -
Re: Some glyphs (made with FontForge) aren't showing in Adobe Illustrator
it's unlikely, but a few years ago I had a case in FF with two glyphs with the same unicode number. Your description might fit this. This means that in the font, apart from the glyph "E&quo…1 -
Re: Some glyphs (made with FontForge) aren't showing in Adobe Illustrator
I don’t know that software, but when you type the missing characters in Illustrator, is the width the same as what it should be in your font? Did you draw the E in a background layer that didn’t expo…1 -
Re: Variable Fonts In Use
At the very bottom of glyphsapp.com in the word "Glyphs" is variable based on the position of your cursor.1
