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Re: Techniques & Strategies for creating Italic glyphs
but it never was the cure all that Ed claimed it would be. There is no panacea to slanting type. I think the trick is to just design new characters for the italic so it’s a least enjoyable as opposed…2 -
Re: Point Clean-up
In general extreme points are needed to make text render onscreen. But in slanted fonts it can be tough to draw some features with extreme points, so leave them out if you have to.1 -
Re: Outstanding typographic Copperplate interpretations?
Bruce (New York, nineteenth century) specimens are packed with great copperplate scripts fonts. Bruce practically invented the genre.1 -
Re: Point Clean-up
FontLab’s Contour > Nodes at Extremes will do something similar. Glyphs has that as well. But being able to add the extema selectively is nice.2 -
Re: Point Clean-up
I've found FontLab's FontAudit to be a very helpful tool in working with my intern. We discuss what gets flagged and how important it is. I learned a lot from reviewing every glyphs with Font Audit, …1
