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Typographic Tattoos??

... design gone over, and longer wedge serifs and some careful decorative elements added. I was quite impressed by how thoughtfully it was ...

Forum topic - Hildebrant - 4 Sep 2003 - 7:14pm - 106 comments - 0 attachments

Font Starter Packs

Indices : Typefaces : Font Starter Packs A recommended list of commercial fonts available in affordable collections, usually on CD. Of interest to students and designers looking to begin building a professional typeface collection. ...

Wiki - aluminum - 21 Dec 2011 - 9:24am - 0 comments

OpenType smallcaps in a separate font?

... variants. If your font includes four different kinds of decorative initials along with a regular uppercase and regular lowercase, you may decide to offload the decorative initials into separate fonts. Putting various kinds of glyphs into ...

Forum topic - twardoch - 21 Mar 2007 - 6:21pm - 47 comments - 0 attachments

Stylistic Alternatives - Indesign ?

... good use for Titling -- for a set of Inline, "Tooled", or Decorative Capitals, such as those in Scala (although there are four sets). ... it is quite fine to place the Inline, “Tooled”, or Decorative Capitals into the "titl" feature and *also* have them as one of the ...

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

Appropriate use of the ampersand

... I'd make an exception to that depending on whether the decorative nature of it is appropriate. I think the tendency to use it is ...

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

An 'authentic' Necronomicon

... realistic). But they have some example woodcuts , decorative intitial caps , page decorations and some example PDF pages ...

Forum topic - Chris Rugen - 19 Feb 2004 - 6:57pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments

Nazi Taint - Redirect from: Design >> Overused Typefaces

... for certain that Blackletter belongs in the realm of the decorative and unusual. Not that that's a bad thing.... By the way, I ... is to be accepted into modern culture as anything but a decorative font, it needs to be used with something other than a historical ...

Forum topic - hrant - 12 Jun 2003 - 1:44pm - 96 comments - 0 attachments

UPM value of 1000 set in stone?

... to fall precisely on the grid. (the design has a few decorative elements, like seamless patterns for each weight, for instance, ...

Forum topic - truecolors - 26 Feb 2008 - 7:55am - 30 comments - 0 attachments

Tierra Nueva - new font inspired by old spanish map - OUT NOW :)

... so maybe crap) - some new Lig-ideas and -adaptions (decorative) - OE-combination - some special chars (R) (too big yet), (c), ...

Forum topic - Sebastian Nagel - 25 Jul 2010 - 1:41pm - 72 comments - 2 attachments

To autohint, or NOT to autohint...

... clunky or wobbly when autohinting comes into play. Decorative and detailed fonts... fugetaboudit! I am of the opinion that an ...

Forum topic - silas - 29 Sep 2005 - 8:50am - 40 comments - 0 attachments