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- Fontographer is dead, long live Fontlab?
... other programs, but if (like me) you’re more “type” than “computer,” FL is probably the easiest route. ... offer a reduction when buying Fontlab if you already own Fontographer:-) One quick question, how do you import the fog file into ...
Forum topic - Fontourist - 22 Sep 2008 - 4:38am - 13 comments - 0 attachments
- Fontographer Vs. Fontlab...
... showing up at bottom of InD list Sharptype, Sharp your type › I would respectfully suggest that you not consider ... 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 - 6:02am - 55 comments - 0 attachments
- Native Fontographer for Mac OS X now available
... of things Fog Does Better in the LETTER DRAWING phase of type design: 1. End points connect like they know they are supposed to in ... had the chance to poke around with FogX, and was amused by the anachronism: made me want to thrown on some neon legwarmers and fire up ...
Forum topic - Grant Hutchinson - 27 Nov 2005 - 9:33pm - 84 comments - 0 attachments
- Do font pros really use FontLab or Fontographer?
... metrics adjustments in Fontographer, then generate a PS Type 1 font. I then open the PS font in either DTL Fontmaster Light (if I ... to a work process and set of tools and just work it out by giving time to it. Whether your going through a multistep progression of ...
Forum topic - msa - 7 Mar 2007 - 9:29am - 68 comments - 0 attachments
- Which to learn: Fontlab or Fontographer?
... I’m starting down the path of learning to design type, and I’m trying to pick a program. Has anything happened since ... tested very extensively in professional font production by most of the top font foundries of the world. TypeTool includes the same ...
Forum topic - James Puckett - 29 Dec 2006 - 2:48pm - 18 comments - 0 attachments
- reaaally good font design software
... is also not straightforward to install on windows. - Type 2.2 is typelight older brother, with loads more features. You can buy it ... (version 3.0 at that point). I ended up being hired by the company seven years later, and all that time I did not see much movement ...
Forum topic - Chriggystardust - 23 Oct 2008 - 12:35am - 15 comments - 0 attachments
- Hinting in Fontographer 4
... of Peter Bruhn on Technical Issues & Techniques / Type design process. Ricardo Thanks. The fontlab link 404s but its ... on font design, including manual hinting, from [Divide By Zero]: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~twm/makefont/ David ...
Forum topic - sbt - 8 Feb 2002 - 3:55pm - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- Mike Hebrew - A Work in Progress
... and size throughout. An example of side-by-side usage of Mike Hebrew Web with a single point size. The ... ‹ Welcome to the Typophile Hebrew Typography & Type Design Group Straight from Israel: Raphael's Comments & ...
Forum topic - mike_thompson - 19 Oct 2008 - 7:18pm - 57 comments - 0 attachments
- First stab at type design - Sequoia
... KB ‹ Tierra Nueva - new font inspired by old spanish map Suggest a good Serif Font in Small Caps › not ... tail on the ’x’. great job for the 1st type though, mine is still in the process of incubation. and good on you for ...
Forum topic - laserj - 24 Jun 2008 - 9:30pm - 6 comments - 1 attachment
- How to design a typeface?
... FontFont and read it. Then get to work. Get inspired by some Get inspired by some typeface and start improving upon it by ... note already posted - I started with Fontographer, then Type Tool 2, then FontLab Studio. Read everything, study hard. etc. This ...
Forum topic - mindlessworld - 7 Nov 2008 - 7:29pm - 28 comments - 0 attachments
