Thomas Phinney · Font-related forensics, type design, font production, general typography expertise.

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  • Re: Install fonts from App Store with iOS 13

    Apple announced five partners: Monotype, Morisawa, Adobe, Founder and DynaFont. Monotype press release: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190603005762/en/Monotype-Thousands-Fonts-iPhone-iPad-T…
  • Re: Install fonts from App Store with iOS 13

    Monotype’s press release mentions them having a dedicated app on the app store, apparently just for Monotype. So that suggests that each partner foundry can potentially have their own app, and presum…
  • Re: <aalt> before <ccmp>

    Just to say, that in the AFDKO compiler (and the font editors that rely on it, including FontLab and Glyphs), if you do not have explicitly programmed lookups, I am of the understanding that the orde…
  • Re: Thick Display

    For the G with the spur, the bottom curve is a bit off. The on-curve point on the bottom needs to shift left a bit. The off-curve points connected with it might move not at all, or half as far... hav…
  • Re: Thick Display

    What Claudio means (I expect) is that the usual weight distribution for an S is to make the spine heavy, and the top and bottom a bit thinner. This has the advantage, in a bold typeface, of having le…
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