James Puckett

I decided to try Kern On with my latest typeface. After deleting all the small pairs (less than 5) and cleaning up some garbage (pairs for CALT glyphs) I still have over 7,500 pairs in each master. A… (View Post)

It’s a stylistic choice that can work either way, similar to how very light diacritics can work just fine with ultra bold letters. But if you make the bars heavy then you need to lighten the stems th… (View Post)

The MyFonts search results are garbage because designers can add irrelevant tags that affect search results. So some keywords are just doomed to return garbage results. (View Post)

I think there’s a future for finding ways to use fonts for things other than type. Apple opened this door with SBIX and the notion that glyphs can be containers for just about anything. People will f… (View Post)

I usually design them so vowels can tuck under them and then add positive kerning so they don’t crash into stuff. But I’ve also done it the other way around. ďa ďä ďe ďě ďi ďo ďǒ ďu ďk ďA ďI ďO ďU ď'… (View Post)