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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 -
Re: Your most valuable Tips & Tricks in Type Design!
Don’t draw curved shapes by drawing curves with a pen tool. Instead place the extrema points, pull the curves out of them, make the on-curve points into smooth connections, and then even out all the …2 -
Re: Kerning for beginners
Kerning is about acceptance. Accept that it's not going to ever work perfectly for every size or language. Accept that kerns intended to fix punctuation problems can cause others. Accept that most pe…13
