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Time for a website for free font development?

... "freeware" fonts, which is much less interesting). In this post, I will set down my vision for what such a site might look like. ... font designers: try installing a font on Linux sone day! Often you can drag it into ~/.fonts/ but there's no good user ...

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

New Letterhead Fonts antipiracy font lockdown scheme

... is what I use). 3. The fonts are either embedded in this "Letterhead Fonts" application or somewhere else unknown/hidden from the ... some gorgeous stuff for license, but surely this is a sad day. Hoefler and House both had installers, but you could still manage the ...

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

What are you listening to?

... another out of control band called new brutalism, and this wicked cool canadian band called shotmaker. i still have a headache from ... bands like Soul Coughing and Kyuss. If it's a rough day may throw in some Rage or Fear Factory. For Groovin' Bad Boy Bill and ...

Forum topic - Joe Pemberton - 5 Sep 2007 - 9:54pm - 712 comments - 0 attachments

The MODERN BLACKLETTER

Hey Everyone, I'm not sure how active this forum is? As a New Zealander I am currently doing major project, here is ... from the past, espcially the Nazi past. (Blackletter's hey-day, say 1450–1800, is not a period that modern Germans can associate with ...

Forum topic - Hannah - 26 May 2006 - 9:52pm - 68 comments - 0 attachments

The Sloped Roman

... many designers trying there hand at a sloped roman in that day. *I'll go diggin later to see if I can find my notes on Electra. ... a new type was made, which was true italic in nature, and this was named Cursive. The current digital incarnation of Electra just has the ...

Forum topic - canus - 9 Dec 2006 - 9:11am - 19 comments - 0 attachments

Spiro 0.01 release

... want as much as possible. > I would prefer to find this drawing environment > as an option in FL, FOG, DTL FontMaster or ... quibbling with your spiral point positions on my laziest day, and I would not spend any time to argue with the output quality of the ...

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

Nebiolo's 'Semplicit

... sans. It would be like saying that all present day sans serif faces that are slightly squarish, semi-condensed and ... general lettering aesthetic of the day. Is this font available in digital? No. Are you in a hurry? Can you wait ...

Forum topic - titi - 5 Jul 2004 - 7:55pm - 22 comments - 0 attachments

Shameless Type Scare Tactics Poster day. BOO!

... I liked the Dez Frogy typeface a lot. When did you made this? I never saw your typefaces...Can i see all the characters of this face?? ... stuff, Chris! Made Excellent stuff, Chris! Made my day in the very wet Helsinki (other parts of the country ended up with a HUGE ...

Forum topic - dezcom - 31 Oct 2006 - 11:53am - 105 comments - 0 attachments

HTF Didot vs. Linotype Didot

... use roman caps where today we would use small caps. This question was prompted by a series of specimens on the H&F-J website in ... angelic alphabet -- was very much the programme of the day. * Most of Fournier's examples (woodblocks, not type) ...

Forum topic - Mark Foster - 6 Apr 2005 - 1:05pm - 21 comments - 0 attachments

Advice please: on useful old books to add to Typophile's library

... opportunity! I could just buy things online I guess but this would be more fun. The 1978 re-issue of The 1978 re-issue of ... wouldn't want to be without: The Typographic Book, by Day and Morison, about $75. American Proprietary Typefaces, David Pankow, ...

Forum topic - ebensorkin - 30 May 2007 - 1:24pm - 10 comments - 0 attachments