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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 -
Re: Old font tools still in use?
I'm writing this on a 2011 MacBookPro (High Sierra) that I bought from a friend for $100.1 -
Re: Master-dependent features
This is a really good question. The mark feature is most often used for connecting two glyphs together, and this is most often does using anchors in the font editor. You stick one anchor on a glyph c…1 -
Re: Master-dependent features
In glyphsApp you would not make the make feature manually. You define anchors in each glyph and those will be interpolated for the instances. And from the anchors – on export – the mark feature is ge…1 -
Re: Any recommendations for a reputable vendor focused on Cyrillic (or generally multi-language) fonts?
Oh, yes you are right about FF, I overlooked the fact the typeface is finished :) There is one more place Local Fonts run by Stefan Peev: https://localfonts.eu/1
