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Book Review: How to create typefaces
This is the long-awaited English translation of Henestrosa, Mesegeuer and Scaglione's Cómo crear tipografías. Until recently there has been a dearth of books aimed at the beginning typeface designer;…6 -
Re: Callout for Japanese typefaces at MyFonts
Right. What this is likely to produce is: 1) Kana designs without a matching kanji set (unusable) 2) Designs with a relatively small kanji coverage (unusable) or 3) Designs produced by running a filt…5 -
Re: Origins of Python in Type Design
Just Van Rossum is a type designer. He was the one of the first to do really programmy things with fonts. His brother Guido invented Python.13 -
Re: Keeping up to date – Blogs, newsletters, news sites etc…
There seems to be quite an active type community on Twitter; I've learned a lot by listening in on the chatter. If you're not already using it, then follow typographica and a bunch of your favourite …5 -
Re: Open Type Localisation or Stylistic Alternates ?
One of the things I aim to get done in my Copious Free Time is to add language tagging to the various texts on Pablo's type testing page. That's working on the basis that browsers will pass the langu…2
