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Re: Metrics Machine
Metrics Machine kicks ass: • It has a great GUI for setting up kerning groups (class). • It has a simple tool for creating groups automatically. • It has tools for generating lists of kerning pairs o…6 -
Re: Techniques & Strategies for creating Italic glyphs
I have an old Wacom Graphire I pull out for Photoshop work about once a year. I had a big intuos 3 for a few months but never could get use to the inaccuracy of the cursor—likely due to my coffee int…2 -
Re: Techniques & Strategies for creating Italic glyphs
but it never was the cure all that Ed claimed it would be. There is no panacea to slanting type. I think the trick is to just design new characters for the italic so it’s a least enjoyable as opposed…2 -
Re: Point Clean-up
In general extreme points are needed to make text render onscreen. But in slanted fonts it can be tough to draw some features with extreme points, so leave them out if you have to.1 -
Re: Outstanding typographic Copperplate interpretations?
Bruce (New York, nineteenth century) specimens are packed with great copperplate scripts fonts. Bruce practically invented the genre.1
