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Re: Your most valuable Tips & Tricks in Type Design!
Best tip I heard from Gerry: write yourself a design brief - what kind of font do you want to make, what do you intend it to be used for, and why - and use it to evaluate what you are doing.5 -
Re: Professional opinion about my first font.
Gerry Leonidas often talks about the importance of writing a brief for yourself - what you the see the typeface as being, what it's for, how you expect it to be used, etc. Currently I'm get…1 -
Re: Question about Font Engineers
Check out my recently revised Fonts And Layout for Global Scripts, which is rapidly becoming a brain dump of everything I know about font engineering.4 -
Re: Autotracing is Boring and Autotracing is Exciting
In general this is probably true. But I feel compelled to point out some of the awesome things that Luke Prowse has been able to do through scripting, and that his scripts are open source. (I was in…3 -
Re: How do you folks handle quality control?
For my Nastaliq work I use a combination of automated testing (the computer finds problems by looking for overlaps and outline errors) and semi-automated testing (the computer produces combinations o…2
