While preparing Werkplaats Typografie workshop, I had the good surprise to discover fontforge-executables in mac in an install package. This means installation of newer and better fontforge is now pretty much easier that it used to be. I've installed and worked on the ppc version of it. You still need …
One of our Rotterdam reporters made us notice Inconsolata, a monospaced font designed by Ghostscript maintainer Raph Levien. Levien offers an OTF version, plus 'raw' fontforge files on his webpage.
First and foremost, Inconsolata is a humanist sans design. I strove for the clarity and clean lines of Adrian Frutiger's …
Interview with George Williams, Fontforge developer
(...) I think the ideas behind it are beautiful in my mind -- and in some sense I find the user interface beautiful. I'm not sure that anyone else in the world does, because it's what I want, but I think it's beautiful. (George Williams, May …
Interview (~~unedited files~~) with George Williams, developer of
FontForge, the open source font
editing tool. Conversation about Shakespeare, Unicode, the pleasure of
making beautiful things and pottery. Enjoy!
Listen to the recording :
GW_dl1.mp3
[8.1 mb] and
GW_dl2.mp3
[16.6 mb]
... or read the transcription: "I think the …
Two projects to submit fonts to, or find others to work with:
Typeforge
http://www.typeforge.net
The Typeforge project was initiated by Portuguese type designer Pedro Amado, to create a platform for "open source collaborative type design". You are encouraged to share sketches, notes and ideas and work on …
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