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Re: Origins of Python in Type Design
And then there was RoboFog, a customised version of Fontograper 3.5 modified by Petr van Blokland, Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland in 1995, that was the first font editor to include Python scri…8 -
Re: Superscript – missing forms
I think Fontographer is to blame for making people think that fractions were part of Macintosh encoding in PostScript Type 1 fonts.1 -
Re: Font naming and version control - incl. different formats
The Python FontTools library gives access to the contents of most common font file formats. For OpenType and TrueType fonts it will be a matter of writing a Python program that can iterate through fo…7 -
Re: Florin sign (ƒ)
The /florin – as with other currency symbols – needs to work with numbers and therefore I usually design it differently than italic /f. Especially when it needs to work with lining numbers I make the…5 -
Re: Naming font modifications
One reason why we always strongly advise our clients on changing the name for custom font modifications is that their use is rarely contained within the organisation/company itself. Third parties – s…9
