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Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
The /florin – as with other currency symbols – needs to work with numbers and therefore I usually design it differently than italic /f. Especially when it needs to work with lining numbers I make the…5 -
Re: Best strategy for releasing new fonts to distributors
If you want to stagger placement, place it with the smaller distributor(s) first. The big guys don't need the sales.6 -
Re: Is Anyone Designing Colour Fonts?
I built a color version of my Amiri Quran font where diacritic dots (these are part of the glyphs and have no decomposed forms in Unicode), Hamza and vowel marks have different colors from the main t…9 -
Re: Home office vs. office
I work from home for the most part, although I do have a membership at a nearby co-working space I go to once or twice a week when I need a change of scenery. While I do have a home office in the bas…10 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
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Re: Home office vs. office
I was admiring the camera set up at the Letterform Archive, and thinking I'd like to have one of those. Then I realise it was about half the size of my whole office.5 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
I would consider use of the florin for f-stop to be a hack. It's just an italic f, but the italic f in most fonts doesn't look the way people thought it should for this particular use. Inst…6 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
There is something rootless about digital culture, so we need a little high touch to offset the high tech, and foundry connects us with our storied past. So much emphasis on distressed and script typ…5 -
Re: Is the term ‘foundry’ a proper name for digital companies?
Another point: From the era of photocomposition until the advent of PostScript type, when the metal type foundries had folded or were on their last legs, each machine manufacturer made its own fonts,…5
