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Re: Type pricing and licensing: as a tool or material?
I think that the explosion of lettering is giving lots of designers an education in how hard it is to draw letters. That helps them understand how much work it takes to design entire typefaces. And a…8 -
Re: Type pricing and licensing: as a tool or material?
I don’t see this working simply because many designers don’t want to bill fonts to clients. There are myriad designers out there who primarily use free fonts because they think that they can’t afford…2 -
Re: FontLab vs Glyphs
Fontlab 5 never getting fixed sparked a mass exodus to Glyphs by Mac users who were sick of the instability of Fontlab’s Mac version. Glyphs wasn’t perfect but at least Georg fixed his bugs (sometim…3 -
Re: Setting Sidebearings
To get an idea of what you can do with Indesign get my proofs from https://github.com/DunwichType/DTF_Proofs/archive/refs/heads/master.zip1 -
Re: Am I anywhere near the right direction?
As others have noted, you need to work on a lot of detailed drawing work. It will help to compare your work to an exemplar like Gotham or some other great geometric sans. Compare each character side-…1
