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Re: A beginner’s attempt in a text face based on Fell type
I get the feeling the zero is a perfect circle. The problem is, you want it to LOOK like a perfect circle. And a true perfect circle, in western numerals in a font, looks like the horizontal bits (to…1 -
Re: Palatino in book publishing
IF some people call it “the German Garamond,” that is more about ubiquity than design. Not a phrase I have ever heard.1 -
Re: Create metric-equivalent font
Metrics alone have not been considered to be protected as intellectual property anywhere, to date, as far as I know. Personally, I am OK with this. But not everyone is. That said, we have seen in the…6 -
Re: External tool for stem weight measurement of font families?
Aha! I found another tool I was trying to remember. AFDKO has a tool called “StemHist” that does this. In fact, I wrote about it 10 years ago on this very forum: “AFDKO tells you how many stems have …3 -
Re: Seeking newby advice for setting up kerning classes
My kerning approach is a LOT like Ray’s (and John’s). Kelly, as you are in Seattle, you should go to one of the monthly type pub meetups run by Aaron Bell. I have just pinged him about this. :)1
