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Famous Quotes from Type Designers

... type design. Carol Twombly This one was used on the This one was used on the TypeCon2001 materials: "We are type ... where I do most of the work on my laptop. Thomas Phinney I mean, ωhat the I mean, ωhat the fυck? John Hudson ...

Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 5 Jul 2005 - 3:47pm - 142 comments - 0 attachments

Blogs

... Legibility http://legibletype.blog.com/ Phinney on Fonts http://www.thomasphinney.com This Day in Type ...

Wiki - graphito - 14 Aug 2011 - 11:19am - 0 comments

Typophile type designers

... of designers who are 1) alive, 2) participants on typophile,* 3) have fonts commercially available. Tim Ahrens : ... hrant Jim Parkinson : (Needs user link) Thomas Phinney : Thomas Phinney Claudio Piccinini piccic Albert-Jan ...

Wiki - david h - 11 Apr 2011 - 12:35am - 0 comments

Quality of a free font

... As to the weight (lightness) -- it is hard to tell on the screen, at the size shown. Here is a trick: Gentium is also a free font, ... permitted. The interesting thing is, according to Thomas Phinney, that the same lawyers wrote both the EULA and the FAQ. Go figure; what ...

Forum topic - Typical - 4 May 2007 - 11:36pm - 54 comments - 1 attachment

Haas Unica research

Hello all. I am doing some research on the typeface Haas Unica and was wondering if anyone here might have some ... ( i think ) there is certainly no shortage of good sans fonts to pick from now so I think you can't really say you NEED it. You would ... to sue > either threatens to sue him Thomas Phinney: Why don't you sue the Russian websites that offer the entire Adobe ...

Forum topic - Corey Holms - 7 Mar 2006 - 5:18pm - 89 comments - 0 attachments

Fontographer Vs. Fontlab...

... computer program for it. Work will be done, of course, on Macs. Macromedia's Fontographer seems to be the first choice, but does ... learn than Fontographer. Regards, T Thomas Phinney Program Manager Fonts & Core Technologies Adobe Systems ...

Forum topic - rootedideas - 18 Apr 2005 - 5:02am - 62 comments - 0 attachments

where to begin creating ARABIC font? any suggestions?

... and my second would be 2. Is there some tutorial on the web where I can master the basics? I don't need to know much about ... Adobe Arabic font has been recently published on Thomas Phinney's blog: see the opentypedev source links. Adam “Then, I ...

Forum topic - irf2k - 16 Nov 2005 - 7:31pm - 35 comments - 0 attachments

AFDKO 2.0 : Post your feedback here

... it as a Chain Contextual and not a Single Substituti on rule.) So far I tested the makeotf programm only. The FontLab ... experienced a strange problem: The OT features in the fonts generated with the new FDK do not work in InDesign and they do not show ... ligature statements are in fact more limited than Tom Phinney's reply shows. In the case of the contextual ligature rule, the ...

Forum topic - Miguel Sousa - 15 Jun 2007 - 7:33pm - 104 comments - 0 attachments

Cyrillic questionary booth

... are the only So HermesSoft are the only ones producing fonts in Bulgaria? That's rough... So what kind of Cyrillic types were produced ... In your opinion, what constitutes good Cyrillic design on the Bulgarian model? Are there any good, thoughtful examples being ... readers/writers -- and is still criticized (on the Phinney blog) for its discretionary cut off-line that leaves out several ...

Forum topic - kateliev - 17 Jan 2008 - 10:41am - 86 comments - 0 attachments

Who wants/needs a Glyph Palette in Photoshop?

... planning the future version (the one after CS3), Thomas Phinney and I are trying to convince John Nack (Senior Product Manager, ... insults and profanity that I’m not going to spew out on Typophile. I really miss the days when Adobe was leading the pack in this ...

Forum topic - Miguel Sousa - 1 Apr 2007 - 12:53pm - 58 comments - 0 attachments