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Re: Adobe announces end of support for “PostScript” Type 1 fonts
I think we should be clear here that the real issue is actually about font licensing, and not about application or system support at all. Other platforms have already abandoned support for PS Type 1 …3 -
Re: Roman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?
Rotation of the nib during writing occurs both as an unintended outcome of the way the writer moves and as a deliberate ductal manipulation. This is why mechanical or digital stroke creation in which…5 -
Re: You are slashing your way into the Papa New Guinean jungle...
Relative proportion in typeface design is complex, because it is both broadly conventional and also particularly idiomatic (and historically also varied somewhat by country, e.g. following Garamond, …7 -
Re: Lowercase letter slots used to house Uppercase forms.
The best way to approach this question is to ask yourself how you want a string of mixed case text to appear when it is set in your font. Too often, people making fonts seem to assume that the proces…4 -
Re: Lowercase letter slots used to house Uppercase forms.
You're still assuming that people are typing in the text in the case that suits your font. Presume, instead, that the text already exists, and your font is just part of the formatting applied to that…6
