... to pop and become obtrusive. What you have to think about when designing a typeface is what your users/customers will require and ... they Numerals are good when they are tabular (i.e., all the same width), in my opinion. Otherwise, lists and tables are a pain to ...

Forum topic - hrant - 3 Oct 2005 - 11:09pm - 23 comments - 1 attachment

... their official typeface). As you can see, my choices are all pretty mainstream. These days, I’m looking to find about half a dozen typefaces that work together in a variety of print ...

Forum topic - Claire Talbot - 17 Apr 2006 - 2:55pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments

... demo, but it didn’t come with any help files AT ALL. I mean it doesn’t even explain how the program works (i guess im ... I can master the basics? I don’t need to know much about design, since I already have bitmaps of the characters I want to create. ...

Forum topic - irf2k - 16 Nov 2005 - 8:31pm - 18 comments - 0 attachments

... (missing U, missing Z,z, etc.). The original figures are all lowercase, the uppercase ones are derived from them. There are ... ligatures, encoding, etc.)? I am trying to lern a lot about it at the moment, but it’s just collecting and combining pieces of ...

Forum topic - Sebastian Nagel - 4 Mar 2008 - 4:47am - 48 comments - 2 attachments

Hi all, This is my first message to this forum. I look forward to getting to ... 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 ... title, the thread http://typophile.com/node/16695 is about the OpenType font format and differences between CFF vs TT flavored OTFs. ...

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

... raw, organic, etc. or did you mean you liked it? all of fugazi's stuff is in constant consideration when the cd player door ... to be heard over the a.b. dick). probably no one cares about this old string anymore, but there you have it anyway. Nice ...

Forum topic - Joe Pemberton - 5 Sep 2007 - 10:54pm - 456 comments - 0 attachments

I’ve just had an inquiry about dollar sign . The client wants a New Zealand Dollar Sign, meaning a ... —K ‹ Contrast Ratio & Legibility for Printed Type suitable typeface › I wasn’t aware that it I wasn’t ... never heard of a dollar sign with a single stroke? Almost all sans serifs that I can think if have dollar signs with just one stroke, and ...

Forum topic - kris - 14 Jul 2007 - 1:41pm - 38 comments - 0 attachments

When you stop and think about it, it is quite a challenge to determine what would be most useful to ... Somewhere thrown into the mix is some attention to “type usage.” By necessity, educating graphic design students today is ... It’s nada, rien, nichts in the mind and all it the eye . Once you can see in this manner, you can then step back and ...

Forum topic - Norbert Florendo - 26 Oct 2005 - 8:31am - 10 comments - 0 attachments

I’ve got a question for all you typographers: When is it, and when is it not, appropriate to use ... {Moderator: Wiki link added.} ‹ High-end, luxury type replacement for Times New Roman? Kerning Help for Logo › I ... read on the german i just read on the german wikipedia about it: officially, you may only use it in company names (in german). i ...

Forum topic - Peter G. - 17 May 2005 - 9:57pm - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... manipulate and modify fonts. FontLab Studio 5 supports all major outline font formats, including Type 1, TrueType, Multiple Master and ... http://www.fontlab.com/studio/ for more details. About Fontlab Ltd. Fontlab Ltd. has stayed at the forefront of digital font ...

News - Miss Tiffany - 12 Dec 2005 - 3:38pm - 18 comments - 0 attachments