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Re: Units per em
Linotype matrices were specified to .001" increments (with machining tolerances of half that) — which is much finer than a quarter of a point, and effectively no unitization at all. Unlike the M…6 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
Hi Mark, Besides the fact that your examples don’t really support your claim, i.e., your colored type can’t be used for text purposes IMHO, the next questions that come up are: – How does the reader,…6 -
Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
Some time ago we asked ourselves the question: ‘Why do type designers traditionally think in black and white?’Why indeed? The world is colorful, the web is colorful, Hollywood does not produce any bl…6 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
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Re: Doesn't the forum webfont need refurbishing?
Nitti, the monospaced font used for code in this forum, has been updated over time to include more scripts and languages. We’d be happy to donate this new version in woff2 format.8 -
Re: Units per em
In the case of the Slabo fonts, I tailored the UPM to each target px size, so that I would have a number that was evenly divisible by the px number to give me a grid that fit to the UPM.5 -
Re: Units per em
It originally had a larger UPM, I think 1000, and set much smaller, in OS X 10.0. It has been sized relative to the caps, including swashy ones, and thus had a tiny x-height compared to other fonts a…7 -
Re: Units per em
There was a problem in Adobe apps (maybe CS6) with UPM higher than ~4500. When you convert to outline it smashed all nodes higher than that down. Printing and pdf export was fine. I didn't test …6 -
Re: Show me your failures!
Gotta love how I didn't even bother to finish the lowercase alphabet there ... After that I took a break until 2007, when my interest in type design was getting serious. Not that my first attemp…5 -
Re: Show me your failures!
Here's a slide from a talk I gave about the iterative process of ironing out the ugliness in my Ambicase project. It shows a very early stage compared to the final shape of the Fatface version.6
