November 9th, 2011

Creating OpenType Fonts: Simplified

OpenType Simplified

In two words, it’s confusing. FontLab has good, professional tools for developing OpenType fonts—but it is certainly not simple or easy. Fontographer really does not deal well with OpenType at all. Having said that, if you have a feature file, you can use it in Fontographer 5.1. You link to it in the

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October 22nd, 2011

Fontographer: Practical Font Design for Graphic Designers

 

Making font design fun

 

Why do you want to use Fontographer? For the fun of it!

When I received the opportunity to go back to my roots, and see what the new Fontographer was like, I was a little concerned. I had just spent nine years painfully teaching myself to letterspace by

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