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Re: "W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design"
Thanks for posting this, Hrant. Three of the many reasons I’m sincerely stoked about this book: * It’s remarkable that a man who produced five or so lifetimes of work has yet to have a proper monogra…8 -
"W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design"
In case you still haven't heard: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/letterformarchive/w-a-dwiggins-a-life-in-design?token=80d07c32 William Addison Dwiggins was a genius, and I don't use t…7 -
Re: Kerning Pairs Generator
Feel free to mash up with this if it seems useful: http://ninastoessinger.com/stringmaker/ Source: https://github.com/ninastoessinger/stringmaker5 -
Re: Doesn't the forum webfont need refurbishing?
It is 2017, you don’t need all scripts in a single font file (and you can’t, the glyph limit for OpenType fonts is 65535 glyphs per font file). I think unicode-range is supported correctly by current…6 -
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
