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Re: Type design apps/software for young people
TypeTool from FontLab is worth checking out. It is their introductory tool, priced similarly to Glyphs Mini. Another Windows option would be FontCreator from High-Logic, which is often overlooked but…4 -
Re: diverging from conventions for Arabic joining
The majority of Arabic typography has involved some simplification of the script, and this precedes hot metal technologies. Most European reductions of the script to type involved a crude understandi…2 -
Re: diverging from conventions for Arabic joining
The Aldhabi font we made for Microsoft includes ʾalif + lām ligation. This kind of optional ligation, of course, has to be applied on top of the standard behaviour implemented in the joining features…2 -
Re: diverging from conventions for Arabic joining
There are optional ligations, beyond standard joining behaviour, that occur in several styles of Arabic script. Some of these join together letter groups that would be separated under standard joinin…3 -
Re: Critique Request for Gothic Gumdrop (100% AI-generated submission to Google Fonts)
I would consider Gothic Tuscan Pointed a kind of faux-blackletter, and don’t think the appelation gothic in that context refers to sans-serif. While the shapes of the letters do not follow the ductus…2
