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Re: Need font for book to be printed on letterpress
John’s explanation reminded me that I was quick to brag, but missed the chance to explain why I think FF Hertz works well in plate printing ... I designed the ‘Book’ weight to be quite dark on the pa…3 -
Re: Need font for book to be printed on letterpress
One of the books from German publisher Suhrkamp’s Letterpress Edition, ‘Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert’ by Walter Benjamin, is plate-printed using my FF Hertz. Of course I’m biased, but I think…5 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
FWIW, the creator of Calibri is not pleased that somebody copied his metrics. He considers them an integral part of the design work. He mentioned that in his talk at TypoLabs 2018. The approach using…4 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
In addition to what @"Ori Ben-Dor" wrote, you would also need to mimick the behaviour of all OpenType layout features that change the advance width of glyphs, e.g. ligatures or stylistic se…3 -
Re: Font Book validation error explanations
If you had access to a Mac, you could use ftxvalidator from the Apple Font Tools to test your fonts. This should give similar results as the Font Book validation. Example: <p>$ ftxvalidator -T …6
