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Re: Tips for Building a Thin Master from an Existing Black Weight
Try finding a copy of The Modification of Letterforms by Stan Hess. It explains how to work out a type family. You can also just pick typefaces you like and look at different weights on different lay…4 -
Re: Tips for Building a Thin Master from an Existing Black Weight
Get a pencil and paper out. Use them to design your black weight. Recreate that design in your editing software. Make stuff interpolate. Add variants of characters that won’t interpolate to work in a…1 -
Re: typedrawers.com offline every now and then?
It might be a DDOS attack on Vanilla’s servers. Forums get attacked a lot. Vanilla can handle huge attacks but a really monstrous attack can still choke them.3 -
Re: A few years old but I found this video on the LinoType machine fascinating
I’m surprised that you missed the opening at SVA! It was a great night. Doug absolutely killed it with this film. I love it. And he’s working on a book about the Linotype now. He has done some seriou…4 -
Re: W3C Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) is now a candidate recommendation
Now web sites can shave 1.5KB off a font to speed up downloading 5MB of tracking scripts!1
