Italify – now available

SCarewe

A while back, I made an initial post about my newest tool: Italify. Today, after lots of additional development, Italify is out of the service model and can be directly installed and used in Glyphs.

The plugin allows you to generate optically corrected obliques in a fraction of the time you’d usually spend, at very high quality. From my experience with many clients who used the service, it can get you up to 95% of the way to the final oblique, depending on the design and your taste.

Italify can currently be licensed per week (unlimited masters) or per master (unlimited time). Contact me for custom licences (monthly, yearly…). The current pricing is deliberately aimed at foundries working on custom jobs, as a way to trial the plugin and workflow, collect feedback and improve the algorithm.

A handbook, a fully functional free trial (48h), licensing information and a Python API documentation are all available on the website.

I’m happy to give demos and introductions in person (Paris/Berlin/London) or by video, just contact me.

Adam Ladd

Cool! The site has some nice animated examples too, to help visualize.
Maybe I've overlooked something, and know it's early, but curious about any thoughts on its potential for serif designs?

SCarewe

You can try it on your serif design. Technically, it's possible – Italify doesn't know what kind of design you have, it only sees path segments. You could run it on icons, if you wish.

Whether it really makes sense for your design is a different question, and the results are definitely not what one would normally expect for a true serif italic.

Italify "only" corrects the distortion of slanted shapes, it doesn't change anything about the fundamental design.

I'd be curious to see what you end up using it on!

Adam Ladd

Gotcha. Thanks for your feedback and thoughts!

Christian Thalmann

That looks super useful! The price is a bit steep for my level of type design, unfortunately.