James Puckett


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 … (View Post)


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.zip (View Post)

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-… (View Post)

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 … (View Post)

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… (View Post)