Mark Simonson · Type designer

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Admin James Puckett
  • Re: Streamlining Dafont Creation?

    James: I think scanners have already done to type design what sampling did to music. This looks more analogous to a synthesizer. Techno fonts anybody?
  • Re: Family name

    1. TTX converts a font to and from an XML-based format (.ttx). It can't convert between font formats. If you convert an .otf font to .ttx, running the .ttx back through TTX will produce an .otf font.…
  • Re: Family name

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295062
  • Re: Family name

    Your name tables are really messed up. First of all, you've got four different weights. For Windows, you can have at most two weights in a family (two roman, two italic), technically regular and bold…
  • Re: R.I.P.

    I was once told by a Dutch interviewer that the currency symbol in Proxima Nova was poor. I had lazily used the regular weight for all weights, thinking it didn't matter, that nobody actually used it…
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