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- Time for a website for free font development?
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... should perhaps not be separate. I am continually impressed by the level of discussion on the typophile forums. The Cyrillic uc/lc ... this seems to happening to some degree allready with type design. Sometimes it is through 'kudos', people starting out can make a ...
Forum topic - raph - 6 Dec 2005 - 4:29pm - 30 comments - 0 attachments
- New Letterhead Fonts antipiracy font lockdown scheme
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... days, but I remember a few years ago that was not set by default, and clients usually do not know or bother to change it. If this is ... I use, who still won't get Quark 7, doesn't do Open Type - so to hand my work over to a professional - would be difficult. Would ...
Forum topic - zebrasystem - 8 Jan 2007 - 5:52pm - 245 comments - 0 attachments
- Spiro 0.01 release
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... to get full control of Beziers, and unfortunately too many type designers can't separate their design choices from their digital ... it's getting it right. At least for me, I have to do this by trial and error, both to see how the glyph works with the rest of the face, ...
Forum topic - raph - 9 May 2007 - 7:19am - 142 comments - 0 attachments
- Books
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... wealth of information has been published about the art of type. "The Triumvirate of Typography"—selected primary works of three ... FSI FontShop International , Berlin, 2006. Fontographer: Type by Design -Moye, Stephen. MIS:Press, 1995 Fonts ...
Wiki - circehouse - 2 Jul 2011 - 11:17am - 0 comments
- PDF font extraction
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... much any software can be cracked/reversed engineered by those willing to figure it out. Hi folks, No harm meant, nor Hi ... me, when I implored someone to "flatten" their pdf so the type would be a graphic and not a font! (And therefore, impossible to extract.) ...
Forum topic - Nick Cooke - 11 Jun 2007 - 1:03am - 97 comments - 0 attachments
- Geometrics used in type design
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Hello, all! I am not a type designer and my level of knowledge about fonts is relatively scant. ... you were thinking of could have possibly been Codex by Emerald City Fontwerks or Roughwork from Scriptorium. It looks like ... a term for that - probably because I know of only one such design: Agfa's Rubino. In terms of references, Matthew Carter has ...
Forum topic - pbarney - 14 Sep 2004 - 9:31am - 25 comments - 0 attachments
- Not Obeying the 'Times' Requirement
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... think you want to distract the prof from your writing by using a funky font or "non-conformist" design. If they notice the font at ... a number of our Monotype fonts were issued as PostScript Type 3 fonts. I don't really remember how long ago that was, but I don't think ...
Forum topic - copperfont - 3 Mar 2007 - 7:09pm - 76 comments - 0 attachments
- Fontographer Vs. Fontlab...
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... interface, and is a more direct design tool. Many type designers still use Fontographer for creating glyphs and basic ... one of only two students to participate in this program. By the way, can anyone explain how difficult Type 1, TrueType, and/or OpenType ...
Forum topic - rootedideas - 18 Apr 2005 - 5:02am - 62 comments - 0 attachments
- The best fonts you can't have...
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... Sorry that was maybe a little cryptic. I went to a lecture by the husband and wife team, Massimo and Lella Vignelli, who did the ... http://typophile.com/blog/7029 I like the DB Type for the I like the DB Type for the german railway company "Deutsche ...
Forum topic - SuperUltraFabulous - 24 May 2006 - 2:30pm - 97 comments - 0 attachments
- UPM value of 1000 set in stone?
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... with other numbers. It cannot be cleanly divided by 3 to start with. Could I use 1080, for instance? (With the exception of 7, ... If your UPM size is 2,000 and the user chooses 10 pt type, any glyph that will be 1,000 units high in your font will be exactly 5 pt ...
Forum topic - truecolors - 26 Feb 2008 - 7:55am - 30 comments - 0 attachments
