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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 -
Re: Glyph Set for Book Typesetting
It will depend on the content of the book, and the style of typography used, which will determine not only the required glyph set but also the range of weights and styles needed. If we’re presuming a…2
