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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 -
Re: Books on developing font weights?
Get The Modification of Letterforms by Stanley Hess. It explains how to build families with a variety of weights and widths. It’s a forgotten classic of type design.4 -
Re: Terminating Contract with Myfonts / pulling fonts off their website
You need to read the contract. They change it from time to time so the rest of us might not know what’s in the current contract. Also, you know all of those horrible stories about record labels signi…4 -
Re: How do you folks handle quality control?
I proof on paper at each stage of the design. Before I start kerning I run through huge brute force proofs that show combinations of letters and punctuation. I do those proofs again after kerning. Th…7
