Type Supply Website (The Making of)
I recently launched a new site for my company. I put a lot of thought and work into it, and a few people have asked me questions about the tools I used, why I did some things the way that I did and...
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I’m happy to announce that I’ve decided to open source a large portion of of my font development code repository. This batch of code includes core libraries for building font development applications,...
View ArticleFeatureProof Beta 1
Among the avalanche of code I just open sourced is a humble little application called FeatureProof. This application is an environment for testing features in OpenType fonts. I’ve been thinking about...
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Fraction Fever
I’ve never liked the way fraction feature is usually implemented in OpenType fonts. I thought I was the only person until Kent Lew wrote to me with the same frustration. We talked about it a bit and I...
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Studio Lettering
At long last, Ken Barber’s Studio Lettering is available to the public. I wrote the OpenType features for these fonts, so I thought that I’d give a quick behind the scenes tour. If you are interested,...
View ArticleComparing Font Binaries
Yesterday I had to dive into a large number of fonts to fix a tiny bug. It sounds easy enough, but font mastering these days is a process of educated guessing, pure guessing, crashing software,...
View Article.webfont Proposal
A quick note about web font progress: Erik van Blokland and I have been working on a new web font format. You can read all about it on the W3C WWW-Font mailing list. Update: Lots of foundries are...
View ArticleFraction Fever 2
A while back I described an idea for a different approach to implementing a fraction feature. Since then, I have gotten feedback from Karsten Luecke and others, the algorithm has been improved and a...
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