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Re: Persian (Arabic) typeface that works as a new alphabet!
I love the gap trick on the KRX. Have you seen any other modular Persian display lettering?2 -
Re: Fraction Slash
For heavy nut fractions, why not let the numerators and denominators hang over the cap and base lines? Is there any reason that they would need to be so strictly aligned and crushed to fit?5 -
Re: Kris Sowersby's "Welcome to the Infill Font Foundry"
In-fill is a real thing. I've consciously made in-fill typefaces. I've had clients specifically commission in-fill. Like my DDT typeface. The client liked Microgramma but said it was too sq…13 -
Re: Width & weight relationships
I always work from heavy to light. If I don't narrow the light, it feels like it's too wide. Lighter weights have wider sidebearings which makes it feel even wider.2 -
Re: Generating font weights in fontlab, Italic v Oblique
I think the oblique got a bad rap in the late 1990s and early 2000s because they were conflated with the easy skewing generated by the word processors and 10-second Fontographer slant jobs like the o…4
