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Re: Books/methods for learning calligraphy
Get the Speedball Textbook.3 -
Re: How to best give access to special characters in a font
The Mac keyboard gives access to all the dashes, quotation marks, inverted exclamation and question marks, lots of currency symbols, and some other good stuff. And the ABC extended layout provides a…3 -
Re: Automatic "Smart Metrics" introduced
There’s also iKern, which is endorsed by many designers including Hannes von Döhren and Peter Biľak. And I think DTL Kernmaster does automatic kerning but I can’t find it on their web site.2 -
Re: Question about Font Engineers
Font engineers are the people who can make fonts work so type designers don’t have to. At the simplest this might just be working out vertical metrics and font family naming. Coding and testing OpenT…8 -
Re: How to design a curve
I draw a curve (In Glyphs) by placing the extrema points, shift+opt clicking on the lines to convert them into curves, then push and pull everything into place.1
