June 2011
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November 2010
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March 2010
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Current progress on the text typeface →
All feedback is welcome. What do you think?
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Mar 7th
February 2010
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The caps do a lot for the character of the...
Here’s what I did: I went from narrow, same-width-caps to more proportional caps. The result is a friendlier and more legible (in my opinion, naturellement) text. Here is the before: This is after. Not done yet, but the O, G, N, E and R show the intent. It still retains the slightly squarish look that goes well with its narrowness, but the words just look better.
Feb 12th
December 2009
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“The best part about designing your own type is using it yourself. The worst part...”
–  Me on Twitter
Dec 2nd
November 2009
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Nov 9th
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October 2009
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Oct 31st
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Oct 21st
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Archiving a typeface and its progress
It’s very hard to track significant changes when you’re working with a .vfb. FontLab Studio does not keep a complete record of everything you’ve ever drawn, for good reasons, but I don’t care about the bits I delete half a day later. So, I export a typeface a couple of times a week. (I, by the way, use Ben Kiel’s excellent Better Generate Font script to handle that.) ...
Oct 21st
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Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
Ahoy.
What I will be doing here is chronicle some of the more amusing (Super! Exciting! Yes! This Is Fun!) aspects of type design, and probably show off some neat things, both by myself and by others. Me, I’m a student at the KABK in The Hague, and I like to design and write. Quand même, let’s do this.
Oct 20th