That is precisely the seed that TalkingLeaves grew from. I wrote a script to use Hyperglot's language database to find languages that my font nearly supports, and add the 1 or 2 missing characters t… (View Post)
I just released a free, open-source plugin for Glyphs that's designed to give type designers a high level overview of the world's writing systems and scripts, as well as some tools to tell you what y… (View Post)
Rudolf Koch designed a few typefaces with mixed uppercase and lowercase styles. Wallau and Jessen-Schrift are reasonably successful in showing that uppercase/lowercase don't need to have much in comm… (View Post)
Hoefler & Co used to have a clever system where each font was split into two separate font files, with half the glyphs in each. Then the browser would seamlessly merge them through the use of a f… (View Post)
I work on a 13" Macbook Air, trackpad only. I'm always second-guessing myself since most type designers at least use a mouse, but I find the Macbook trackpad very comfortable for drawing type. A… (View Post)