Entries tagged with typeface

Version Control for Typeface Development

3rd Feb 2007 — 3 comments

I’ve wanted to write a bit about version control in relation to font software for a while, but Version Control is a big subject (hence the capitals!) and has been extensively covered elsewhere for software development, so I’ll try to…

Tags: development, download, font, FontLab, fonts, pysvn, Python, Robofab, software, Subversion, SVN, typeface, typeface development, UFO

Let Them Eat Lexicon

15th Oct 2006

Reaction to Ellen Lupton’s proposal, suggested as part of her keynote to ATypI’s annual conference, has been heated, to say the least. Stoking up the fires of an argument thought long resolved within the type design community, free fonts (of…

Tags: ATypI, design, Ellen Lupton, extended latin, free fonts, Gentium, keynote, non-latin, scholarship, students, typeface

Adobe Web Fonts — Neither Likely Nor Desirable

31st Aug 2006

Andrei Herasimchuk from Design by Fire (and ex-Adobe employee) has written an open letter to Adobe, asking them to release a set of core fonts for the web into the public domain. These fonts would then be available to the…

Tags: Adobe, design, fonts, hinting, licensing, Microsoft, OpenType, PostScript, TrueType, typeface, typography, web