Typophile - Poll: What OS and apps do you use for designing type? - Comments

1. Mac OS X 10.5 2. FontLab

eolson — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:50:27 -0800

1. Mac OS X 10.5
2. FontLab Studio 5.0.4
3. FontLab Studio 5.0.4

4. Other tools: AFDKO, Robofab, Python, TextWrangler.

1. Mac OS X 10.4.9 2.

Mike Jarboe — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:19:00 -0800

1. Mac OS X 10.4.9
2. Illustrator CS3
3. Fontlab 5.0.4

1. Mac OS X. 2. Corel

typophonic — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:25:50 -0800

1. Mac OS X.
2. Corel Graphics 11
3. Fontforge

Mac OS X Illustrator

mtzjjorge — Tue, 6 Nov 2007 10:26:55 -0800

Mac OS X
Illustrator 10
QuarK 7

1. Mac OS X 2. FLS 5.0.4 3.

david hamuel — Tue, 6 Nov 2007 05:38:30 -0800

1. Mac OS X
2. FLS 5.0.4
3. FLS/ VOLT
4. HeadPencil™

Adam has come over to the

dezcom — Tue, 6 Nov 2007 05:02:46 -0800

Adam has come over to the Dark Side ;-P

ChrisL

1. Mac OS X (since I got my

twardoch — Mon, 5 Nov 2007 19:51:48 -0800

1. Mac OS X (since I got my MacBook Pro which also runs Windows)
2. FontLab Studio 5.0.4
3. FontLab Studio 5.0.4
4. Other tools: Python, FontTools/TTX, AFDKO, RoboFab, FontQA, LCDF TypeTools, FontForge, Microsoft VOLT.

My colleagues are having too

dezcom — Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:49:18 -0800

My colleagues are having too much trouble with hanging chads and butterfly ballots to vote :-)

ChrisL

Yes. The poll booth will

Stephen Coles — Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:38:04 -0800

Yes. The poll booth will close this Friday. Please coax your colleagues who have yet to respond.

Stewf, are we going to see a

dezcom — Mon, 5 Nov 2007 05:34:44 -0800

Stewf, are we going to see a tabulation of this at some point?

ChrisL

1. Mac OS X (10.4.10) 2.

Dario Muhafara — Mon, 5 Nov 2007 05:04:47 -0800

1. Mac OS X (10.4.10)
2. FontLab Studio 5 (5.0.4)
3. FontLab Studio 5 (5.0.4)

1. Mac OS 10.3.9 2.

Mikhail Kovalev — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 03:51:55 -0700

1. Mac OS 10.3.9
2. Illustrator 9 in emulated Mac OS 9, lightning fast compared to my CS versions... i dont know why
3. FontLab 5

1. Mac OS 9 2.

Ricardo Cordoba — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:36:06 -0700

1. Mac OS 9
2. Illustrator
3. Fontographer

1. Mac OS 10.4.10 2.

Diederik Corvers — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:52:59 -0700

1. Mac OS 10.4.10
2. Illustrator 11 (cs2)
3. FontLab 5.0.4

1. Windows XP SP 2 2.

Thomas Phinney — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:04:02 -0700

1. Windows XP SP 2
2. FontLab Studio 5
3. FDKO (but Miguel does it)

4. Other tools: Tim Ahrens’ RMX tools. I’ll also do my own interim masterin from FontLab.

Poll: What OS and apps do you use for designing type?

Stephen Coles — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:19:31 -0700

A question raised by a recent discussion: what digital tools are type designers using today? Let’s keep the discussion separate, and use this thread only for poll answers.

On what operating system do you do most of your type design work?
(Examples: Mac, Windows, Linux)
In what application do you do most of your letterform drawing?
(Examples: Illustrator, Fontographer, FontLab, Corel Draw)
In what application do you do most of your font editing and mastering?
(Examples: Fontographer, FontLab, DTL FontMaster)

Rules: Please, no discussion here. Only one post per user. Only one answer per question. “Both” is not a valid answer — I recognize that many type designers use both Mac and Windows and more than one or two applications, but for the purposes of this simple poll, please only respond with the primary OS and apps (one for drawing and one for mastering) that you use for the bulk of your work.

Results and analysis will be published on Typographica.
Thank you for participating!