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You (or someone else) may find these helpful… Two Years of Mass-Driver (with Graphs): an article from Mass-Driver LAUNCHING A FOUNDRY WEBSITE 1.0: an email newsletter from Contrast Foundry A twitter … (View Post)

Tamil script requires an OpenType Layout shaping engine, and the implementation may have a Tamil- or Indic-specific engine. It's possible that the shaping engine for Tamil doesn't support discretiona… (View Post)


 I'm very puzzled here, since some of the posts here supplied proof that it had to be before 1943, and very likely before 1936. (View Post)

Moved it for you. (View Post)

@"Kris Sowersby" forgive me for being unclear. I didn't mean a literal named genre. simply that there are so many inspired fonts that you can put them in their own category. There are lots … (View Post)


From the Address Book information I received the "8656" Niederlage (Store/Warehouse) doesn't appear until 1949/50. Here are the emails. I first asked about the Fabrik / Factory tel… (View Post)

Well sleuthed! It just goes to show that using style to date an artefact is no guarantee of accuracy, as historic genres overlap on the time scale. And that’s without revivals. So, just as today ’90s… (View Post)

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 Indeed. The Google Fonts team was barred by Microsoft from participating in the specification and development work on OpenType 1.8… (View Post)

The axis names were updated upstream. There have been a few interesting threads about parametric axes in the last few days. Thread heads + tree diagrams. https://twitter.com/TiroTypeworks/status/1524… (View Post)

I'm doing pretty well as a one-man foundry, but not well enough to quit my day job. And having been at this for almost 30 years now, I've seen a bunch of ups and downs.  (View Post)