Georg Seifert

Re: Help Typedrawers find a new home

Georg Seifert

October 10

We use discourse for our forum. And I’m very happy with it. We self host on a Hetzner server for less than 4 € per month. And I checked some time ago and there is an importer for vanilla forums.

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Re: Letters changing shape from upright → oblique

Georg Seifert

September 9

This can be set up using alternate (or often called bracket) layers. It is explained in this tutorial: https://glyphsapp.com/learn/switching-shapes and this will be exported as a variable font withou…

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Re: Looking for help with Hebrew vowels and cantillation marks

Georg Seifert

May 20

Hi, You can set up the mark positioning in Glyphs by placing anchor points. This page explains it in detail: https://glyphsapp.com/learn/mark-attachment (Disclaimer: I’m the developer of Glyphs).

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Re: When designing italics should a curve's side handles be 90º or slanted to the italic angle?

Georg Seifert

April 3

As fare as I know, it is technically OK to have slanted handles. Except if you like to do a very crisp TrueType hinting (you shouldn’t). But if the shapes look better (not the curves, the look of the…

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Re: AFP fonts from OpenType

Georg Seifert

March 4

I just asked chatGPT about it and it has a lot to say about it. But without knowing AFP it doesn’t make much sense to me. But it seems to be a good starting point.

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