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Time for a website for free font development?

Quite a number of things are happening now in the world of free fonts. I've been tossing around ideas in my head for a website to foster the development of fonts to be released under licenses compatible with free ... can be improved incrementally, both in quality and in script coverage. Building such a site will require a nontrivial amount of ...

Forum topic - raph - 6 Dec 2005 - 4:29pm - 30 comments - 0 attachments

New Letterhead Fonts antipiracy font lockdown scheme

... method for installing/using fonts? I recently bought one of their new fonts since they converted their entire library over to OpenType ... up recently is a knee-jerk reaction from people scared of development. It is too simplistic to compare file sharing with physical theft. ...

Forum topic - zebrasystem - 8 Jan 2007 - 5:52pm - 245 comments - 0 attachments

Sloped roman and italic in the same family

... reading Bringhurst and I came across his discussion of sloped romans and italics (p. 56-59). This triggered a series of ... experiment to be wrong in principle, but they discussed a script type for the Romulus family, and out of this came Van Krimpen's ... see if there is anything substantial to report about the development of the two italics. I have an ambition to redigitize ...

Forum topic - Chris Rugen - 2 Apr 2004 - 1:10pm - 54 comments - 0 attachments

Spiro 0.01 release

Typophiles, After years of talking about a spiral-based curve editing tool, the provisional patent ... more amazing would be a GUI for that! The ability to script is much more powerful than just the parametrics, and GUIs aren't very ... This plugin architecture is currently in early stage of development, so many more details will emerge as we move forward. * I ...

Forum topic - raph - 9 May 2007 - 7:19am - 142 comments - 0 attachments

Typeface classification

... Chinese Encyclopaedia,' The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, typefaces are divided into the following categories: ... of one of my favorite patterns of object-oriented software development: creation of new objects through the cloning of prototypes. ...

Forum topic - marc - 14 Mar 2005 - 8:01am - 44 comments - 0 attachments

Five Steps to Font Freedom

... Font Freedom . The article is addressing the severe lack of fonts for web design and proposes some ideas on propagating them such that ... of already) is that it could have a chilling effect on the development and sale of fonts not privileged to be licensed by such an ...

Forum topic - Chris Rugen - 9 Mar 2006 - 7:51am - 51 comments - 0 attachments

Opentype features take a vacation with one font using FL5 Mac

... avail. I trashed them and then imported features from one of my other fonts which is working fine but it still does not work! I have ... Tovarich font here at the office. I do all my font development at home on a different computer. At home, I have my personal copy ...

Forum topic - dezcom - 13 Nov 2006 - 12:37pm - 74 comments - 0 attachments

Books

Indices : Books A wealth of information has been published about the art of type. "The Triumvirate ... -Dair, Carl. University of Toronto Press, 1967 Development of Script and Type, The -Meier, Hans Eduard. Syntax, 1994 A ...

Wiki - circehouse - 2 Jul 2011 - 11:17am - 0 comments

Stylistic Alternatives - Indesign ?

... salt { sub @i by @salt ; } salt; First of all, is this the correct way to go ? Everything works great within ... is what Adobe's David Lemon once told me, concerning OT development. In order for OpenType to be accepted and embraced, and for ...

Forum topic - RachelR - 20 Mar 2007 - 8:26am - 92 comments - 0 attachments

Appropriate use of the ampersand

... to use the ampersand character (&) instead of the actual word “and”? {Moderator: Wiki link added.} I think ... remove spaces when initals are used, e.g., "Research & Development, Inc." but "R&D, Inc." __ www.typeoff.de In ...

Forum topic - Peter G. - 17 May 2005 - 8:57pm - 95 comments - 0 attachments