... of Griffo’s last roman in its 1499 state - the font, in adulterated form, of the Hypnerotomachia - and his 1503 italic for ... to me that shunning George’s (and Raph’s) methods requires shunning the magnifier as well. > the more intermediate ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 10:58am - 163 comments - 0 attachments

... ‹ All you clever people, a little help please arabic font & helvetica › Plantin was already doing Plantin was already ... leave behind any good documentation of Caslon’s methods? “Legato principle”: it’s quite hard to imagine ...

Forum topic - gabrielhl - 19 Dec 2005 - 11:18am - 26 comments - 0 attachments

... living situations), and my first 9 or 10 months on the Font Bureau design staff were a lot like an apprenticeship too. I learned quite ... one or more interns that are trained in the traditional methods of drawing letterforms to digial font production. Through application ...

Forum topic - DanDA - 6 Jan 2006 - 12:14pm - 50 comments - 0 attachments

... yourself, that contribute and want to improve tools and methods of type/typographic education and training. It’s still early ... to start with the top row empty. BTW, the little “Font Library” sidebar thing is cool. Serif: Fine, except it’s ...

Forum topic - komprehensive - 30 Nov 2005 - 6:08am - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... it easy to generate multiple Type 1 fonts from a given OT font for all the character-sets and expert sets you might need? If not, ... can be uncharacteristically conservative in their working methods. I mean, creativity is supposed to be all about change and adapting, ...

Forum topic - silas - 18 Oct 2005 - 8:03am - 46 comments - 0 attachments

... ended up doing a great deal of visual correction. For my font, I reduced the caps to 96% to get the stroke weight but this will vary ... italics “genetically” close, there are indeed methods, good and bad, just like in the making of smallcaps. It’s not ...

Forum topic - Characters - 14 Aug 2005 - 9:57am - 55 comments - 0 attachments

... a topic asking if teaching traditional copyfitting methods to graphic designers had value anymore. This is a question of particual ... her students...Also, the development of digital tools for font design, (ones that worked), cured me of all for video games...it is the ...

Forum topic - Norbert Florendo - 10 Aug 2005 - 9:25am - 34 comments - 0 attachments

... a couple weeks ago, and among its many delights was a font with the following attribution: Cette premi ‹ apostrophes really ... bastard of a mix (the original, not Raph’s methods…). Looking at the sample in the top post, I’m struck by three ...

Forum topic - raph - 15 Feb 2005 - 12:47am - 113 comments - 0 attachments

... collaborative method . It will provide the fonts and the font files regularly to users, developers and anyone with an interest in type. ... rather than the individual users. I believe that both methods of funding have their advantages and need to co-exist. As John ...

Forum topic - pedamado - 11 Jul 2005 - 8:02am - 34 comments - 0 attachments

... Will TypeTool allow me to design and build an entirely new font? Does it (TypeTool) support OpenType? And, how is its usability in ... the points manually before generating the font). Both methods have their supporters and opponents. Regards, Adam I admit ...

Forum topic - rootedideas - 18 Apr 2005 - 6:02am - 55 comments - 0 attachments