Fontra Pak as a snap app for Linux desktop

https://typedrawers.com/discussion/5303/fontra-pak-as-a-snap-app-for-linux-desktop

Are Em Dashes Really a Sign of AI Writing? - Rolling Stone

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/chatgpt-hypen-em-dash-ai-writing-1235314945/

Saudi joins rarefied league of nations with a currency symbol

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/24/2025/saudi-arabia-launches-currency-symbol

@jhilden check out Type Together’s Playpen Sans and Playwrite families

https://www.type-together.com/newsletters/2024-16.html

Idly wondering, what is the most complex / well made handwriting-simulation typeface made?

Underware’s faces are pretty benchmark, like Scribo, with 1403 glyphs that substitute as you type.

Finnish is merciless, as you can see in the image below, ”tt” and ”ä” characters repeat.
https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/scribo

#typography

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GNOME's new 'Adwaita Fonts' – an Inter-esting set of new typefaces for UI and terminal https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/gnome-introduces-new-ui-monospace-adwaita-fonts?v1

#gnome #typography #opensource

The Chrome browser on Android, Linux and ChromeOS now does all its web font processing using a Rust-based library (Skrifa) instead of its old C++ library (FreeType).

This is part of a general trend. If you look at open jobs by programming language required, Rust is now #7 (up from #10 last time I looked). C++ and C# are declining drastically, Python, SQL, Java, and JavaScript/TypeScript are the top 5 and all growing rapidly. (Golang is #6, and also growing similarly to Rust.)

It seems like a perfect time to (re)introduce ⁂ as a symbol for the fediverse! Read our proposal at https://symbol.fediverse.info

#fediverse #fedimeta

The Value of Open Source Software

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4693148 #freesoftware #opensource #economics

Accented letters in font names

https://typedrawers.com/discussion/5246/accented-letters-in-font-names

@MauriceMeilleur is back for another online workshop: Typographic Patterns and Animations with Python and DrawBot.

For designers who code and love type, pattern, and motion, and want to incorporate them all in their work.

Dec 7–15, 10am–1pm PT (18:00–21:00 GMT)

https://letterformarchive.org/shop/typographic-patterns-and-animations-with-python-and-drawbot/

#Python #PythonProgramming #Animation #DrawBot #Typography #Ad

Fonts | 2024 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/fonts

Print designers: how did you learn about paper stock types, finishes, and weights? Or do you bother yourself with those details? I infinitely curious about the entire workflow and need a primer on this. @glennf #design #letterpress

The Art and History of Lettering Comics

https://kleinletters.com/Blog/the-art-and-history-of-lettering-comics/

Do I know anyone with experience adding diacritics to the name table? Ideally for a Robofont UFO > fontmake > OTF/TTF workflow.

It seems like this should be possible: https://www.robofont.com/documentation/how-tos/adding-localized-name-table/

I need diacritics in the family name, which is currently propegated into nameID 1, 3, 4, 6, and 16

But the language is Hawaiian, which isnʻt listed in the spec for lang ids (obviously small population, so Iʻm not surprised): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/name#macintosh-language-ids

Any help would be much appreciated!

On fractional scales, fonts and hinting – GTK Development Blog

https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/07/on-fractional-scales-fonts-and-hinting/

Fonts are still a Helvetica of a Problem - Canva Engineering Blog

https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/fonts-are-still-a-helvetica-of-a-problem/

I’m delighted to announce that I’m once again teaching my #Typography Masterclass for @smashingconf this May.

Over 5 × 2-hour online sessions, set over the course of 3 weeks, we’ll cover the universal principles of typography, from the tried and tested techniques of graphic design through to the very latest font and browser technology.

https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/workshops/elliot-jay-stocks-web-typography/

I’ve released version 1.1 of my free coding and UI font family, Sudo.

Each style contains 1649 glyphs. Sudo supports the DIN 91379 and @koeberlin Latin S & M character sets, as well as Cyrillic and Latin, totalling a massive 416 languages for 3.3 billion people. according to @rosetta’s Hyperglot.

More info and download: https://www.kutilek.de/sudo-font/

#FreeFont #Coding #CodingFont #UI #UIDesign