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Re: Follow these steps to create a CYRILLIC LETTER I WITH GRAVE in FontLab 8:
Characters like /grave (U+0060) are spacing characters, mostly inherited from legacy pre-Unicode character sets, although some of them are mapped to spacing modifier letters. These were used to build…3 -
Re: Would you recommend being a type designer?
With the caveat that, at least in terms of the Reading MATD programme, the content is strongly focused on type design, not font making, and in my experience graduates come out with minimal technical …4 -
Re: Would you recommend being a type designer?
For the record: I do not have any kind of formal qualification or undertook any formal education in type design, nor do I have a background in graphic design. I came into the field via the antiquaria…6 -
Re: Would you recommend being a type designer?
I have made a living as a type designer for almost 30 years, and it has never been exactly easy, but that is in part because I only set out of make a living and to spend most of my time designing typ…16 -
Re: How many type designers would use an AI assisted plug-in/app
We’ve already talked through a lot of AI-in-type-design topics in this other thread. The most positively received ideas there related to using AI for things like glyph-set extension or completion, e.…4
