Letterform lover. I work teaching and making type.
🌎✊ DESIGN IS ALSO A POLITICAL ACT / EL DISEÑO TAMBIÉN ES UN ACTO POLÍTICO / O DESIGN TAMBÉM É UM ATO POLÍTICO
Voces de las Américas calls for designers, typographers, calligraphers, and visual artists to submit works where typography, lettering, or calligraphy become vehicles for social change.
Red Tipográfica es un espacio de expresión 🖌️, transformação 🌱, and connection 🧵
For anyone using variable fonts in Affinity design apps:
⚠️ BEWARE ⚠️
Affinity applies kerning values from a variable font’s default instance (usually a moderate “Regular” style) to *all* variants of that font, even if it includes design variants with drastically different kerning.
It’s easy to miss in variable fonts with relatively limited stylistic ranges (where kerning doesn’t change much throughout), but it’s quite problematic for variable fonts that cover more expansive ranges of variation.
Look here. This is a method to make smooth and continuous non-orthogonal designspaces. In this example: 4 masters "on the outside" and 3 floating intermediates. (The shapes are from MutatorSans and only illustrate the extent of influence.) #interpolation #experimental #designspace #math #somethingnew
… And a recreation of the “DO IT FOR YOUR HEART” button using the new Casserole Classic typeface (with a modified and rotated ornament from the font for a heart). 😘
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A quick new post at @FontsInUse featuring Davida Bold to celebrate both Valentine’s Day and @ohno’s new Casserole type family – a “resuscitation” of Davida that was just released yesterday.
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/51930/do-it-for-your-button
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Save the dates for the 2023 Typographics Festival: June 12–22. Blind Bird Conference (June 16 & 17) tickets are available now on Eventbrite. Planning is in the works and announcements will be coming soon.
Continuing on the theme of #accessible #typography; this is a pretty good blogpost discussing some relevant topics. Of the default fonts I would argue Lucida Sans and Georgia are among the most reliable alternatives. https://gathercontent.com/blog/what-makes-a-good-accessible-easy-to-read-font
The talk I gave about all things Franklin Gothic for @coopertype & @lubalincenter last month has been re-edited to restore some parts that were dropped in the livestream and subsequent recording. The new edit also includes high-res/full-screen slide images.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94uCx6y90EQ
FontGoggles 1.7.0 is out! It adds support for DesignSpace 5 and fixes a few COLRv1 bugs. https://github.com/justvanrossum/fontgoggles/releases
Drawing with a pressure-sensitive apple pencil in Robofont feels like magic with @colinmford’s extension (in development). https://www.dropbox.com/s/x2822ob3c32gkzd/RF%20Paint%20timelapse.MOV?dl=0
We have been working with Robofont and Glyphs at the studio for a while, but I still use Metrics Machine for Kerning despite what design software I’m using. I wonder what other colleagues are doing? #kerning
