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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 square and t…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 -
Re: Vuit Grotesk, a project to learn typeface design
Go back to those Cyrillics and compare with samples of Cyrillic text. There's too much wrong with it to make a list. You can't rush through that stuff. Believe me, I know. You've added a lot of histo…1 -
Re: My First Font: SILE Sans
Consider throwing away your seed letters, or at least the S. So many times, I've built a font from one or two letters and at the end, I throw the seed letters away and design new ones. Before you mim…3
