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Re: Your most valuable Tips & Tricks in Type Design!
Hrant, I was offering practical advice about working systematically—recognising that making a font is a manufacturing task—, not suggesting or inviting philosophical ruminations on perfection, a word…2 -
Re: Your most valuable Tips & Tricks in Type Design!
Understand the difference between optical deviations within a system and arbitrary measurements. The more things you make quantifiably systematic, the easier the work will be, especially when you sta…5 -
Re: Your most valuable Tips & Tricks in Type Design!
They tend to be when what you are making is a complex system of interrelated elements that all has to work together. If you don’t work systematically and quantify as much as possible—i.e. not more th…1 -
Re: What does font production mean?
It isn’t a term we use at Tiro, though, I think because I wasn’t ever sure where production ended and engineering began, whereas some foundries seem to have quite clear delineation of tasks and roles…1 -
Re: Your most valuable Tips & Tricks in Type Design!
Know where to start and proceed systematically. When it comes to actually creating glyphs in a tool like FontLab or Glyphs, I like to start with the structural glyphs, the ones that establish the com…7
