... to Typophile Idris. At the moment, only professional design programs support most of the opentype features. This covers the high end ... after. Opentype does such a much better job than TT or Type 1 in supporting large character sets that it is hard to resist. This is a ...

Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 12:29pm - 110 comments - 0 attachments

... any of the other characters in the alphabet. (this is very design-dependent, as for example if g is not binocular-style, it should be ... good tool for those interested in learning the nuances of type design. ChrisL For lowercase, I use: For lowercase, I use: ...

Forum topic - Miguel Sousa - 1 Nov 2007 - 3:20am - 34 comments - 0 attachments

... with different ways the 'o' is treated. Your design calls for a somewhat different solution, but you might find inspiration ... anything else than vandalism ^^ no matter how nice the type is bis bald ^^ damn this looks great i like the ...

Forum topic - titus n. - 26 May 2004 - 2:43am - 50 comments - 0 attachments

... to typography curriculum for first year graphic design students. I have received a second edition of the book I used last year ... The school was using James Craig’s Designing with Type and when we reached the section on traditional copyfitting (manually ...

Forum topic - andi emery - 8 Aug 2005 - 6:35pm - 11 comments - 0 attachments

... in which it was expressed. Therefore, it is acceptable to design the tonos at a slightly different angle, length, and weight from the ... there (without meaning to be patronizing to local type designers) with new fonts with italics, bold, and small caps. I’ve ...

Forum topic - Nick Shinn - 14 Jul 2007 - 1:57pm - 25 comments - 0 attachments

... development and the use of serif typefaces for the body type. The concern for the typography of the newspaper was rather conservatory ... topic: Is legibility a matter of habit or of typeface design? Depends legibility of a text on reading habits and how much is the ...

Forum topic - arina s. - 29 Apr 2006 - 7:00am - 28 comments - 0 attachments

... aren’t these new laws designed to keep out a certain type of immigrant? Read: not white, or not white enough. If laws were ... where the problem lurks. Idealism can work great in design, so I shouldn’t be surprised that typophile would be dominated by ...

Forum topic - rs_donsata - 1 May 2006 - 10:57am - 67 comments - 0 attachments

... example.jpg 32.9 KB ‹ OPENTYPE: type naming + styling problem! Automatic Bold in Fontlab 4 › Ah, ... VOLT yet because I don’t do complex script type design. (Yet.) Er, and because I’m sorta lazy. OpenType is supposed ...

Forum topic - Eben Sorkin - 1 Nov 2005 - 8:36am - 89 comments - 1 attachment

... that insisting on addressing the readability in typeface design is like trying to say that all shoes should be designed primarily to ... Footwear is actually an incredibly strong parallel to type (much more so than something like architecture). Comfortable shoes are ...

Forum topic - enne_son - 11 Aug 2005 - 6:46am - 76 comments - 0 attachments

hello, i had posted a critique thread for this type family i’m working on now code named Stitch Gothic (shameless, i ... btw, i want to come up with a better name when the design nears completion. ‹ Claes Interlock Kaled Sans › I ...

Forum topic - istitch - 22 Apr 2006 - 10:26am - 19 comments - 0 attachments