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Typography Weekly #83
Interview: Making Tools for Type Design
Type Designer Mark Frömberg shares how important self-made program tools are to his type design practice. Together with TypeThursday founder Thomas Jockin, Mark goes into how you can start to integrate coding into how you make fonts, a brief discussion on Higher Order Interpolation (HOI) and finally do you need to know programing to make variable fonts.
medium.com
Suggested By Member Ric…
Drawing Vectors for Type & Lettering
“There are even those who proudly display their drawings with points and handles visible to prove that their work is indeed technically immaculate. I don’t really get that, because the purpose of well-built vectors is to maintain efficient editability.”
ohnotype.co
1 commentFirefox now supports variable fonts and Mozilla published a guide
“Variable fonts are an evolution of the OpenType font specification that enables many different variations of a typeface to be incorporated into a single file, rather than having a separate font file for every width, weight, or style …”
developer.mozilla.org
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