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Re: Hinting help for a major type design project. (hinting genius needed)
I can second the recommendation for Monika Bartels http://fontwerk.de/ . She did the two TT hinting webinars with FontLab Studio (which are useful to understand the principles even if you don't …3 -
Re: Would you consider OTF "source" for e.g. an open source font project?
There currently isn't a single source format that is able to store sources of all kinds of data that can end up in an SFNT font. There are several monochrome and color glyph flavors, several lay…2 -
Re: Cyrillic italics vs. obliques
To some extent “how humanist”, to some extent simply how much more cursive (dynamic) the italic is in comparison to the upright. The Futura and News Gothic both have obliques that are equally static …6 -
Re: GlyphsApp, Prepolator, & Superpolator vs. Just Plain GlyphsApp
Dave, I see a certain contradiction in what you're saying: you say that .glyphs is becoming an "industry-standard source format" while you cite examples of foundries using various tool…7 -
Hermann Zapf (8 November 1918 – 4 June 2015)
The great calligraphy and type design master Hermann Zapf passed away yesterday, on 4 June 2015, at the age of 96. Hermann has been a defining force behind type design and typography in the 20th cent…18
