Typophile - noob http://typophile.com/taxonomy/term/4738/0 en my first font needs a harsh critique http://typophile.com/node/106470 <p>New to design!<br /> I have very little experience and only just started to act on my interest in typography.<br /> This was mostly a dabbler's interest, until recently.<br /> I submitted my first font, called Whale, to MyFonts. They promptly rejected it and basically said it was totally unprofessional. It's meant mainly for display, so I don't know why I bothered submitting to them in the first place, but I now have a stronger desire to make this font as good as it can be. Maybe even simplify it for use beyond just displays.<br /> My feelings will not be hurt. I would greatly appreciate a serious critique of my design so that I can make the next version of Whale far better.<br /> Thanks for your time.<br /> - Stigmaa</p> <table id="attachments" class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><a href="http://typophile.com/files/WhaleDisplay_0.pdf">WhaleDisplay.pdf</a></td><td>75.8 KB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> http://typophile.com/node/106470#comments design critique Display Display first font font critique new noob http://typophile.com/crss/node/106470 Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:32:41 +0000 Stigmaa 106470 at http://typophile.com Could any Fontlab gurus help a novice with hinting? http://typophile.com/node/80528 <p>So a couple of years ago, I made my first font, Yagi Double. Then I wanted to hint it, got scared when I saw the amount of work involved. Now I'm ready to try again but it STILL seems too tedious, like I'm missing something. What I've read so far on the subject:<br /> <a href="http://www.rastertragedy.com/" title="http://www.rastertragedy.com/">http://www.rastertragedy.com/</a><br /> <a href="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&amp;item_id=NotesOnHintingWithFL" title="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&amp;item_id=NotesOnHintingWithFL">http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&amp;item_id=NotesOn...</a></p> <p>As I understand it, you come up with an array of numbers representing the location of stuff like the baseline, cap height, x-height, etc. You feed these into two different areas in Fontlab. With an inline font like this, there are twice as many of these numbers. It's a lot of hassle.</p> <p>1. Does this really produce good hinting results at the end, if I could force myself to do it properly?</p> <p>2. Is there no way I can just manually edit the post-hinting outline for each letter? Like drag the vector points around until they neatly box in the pixels? I can <a class="freelinking external" href="http://creedo.gbgl-hq.com/hinting.jpg" rel="nofollow">SEE this outline on the screen</a>, but I can't seem to manipulate it. Is it unrealistic to think I could just manually tweak 52ish characters for every font size between, say, 8 and 18 points?</p> <p>3. If I can't do it this way in fontlab, can I somehow do it in illustrator and import the result into fontlab, like "use this vector outline as my 8pt version of zero"?</p> <p>Any advice is appreciated.</p> http://typophile.com/node/80528#comments fontlab hinting newbie noob Build http://typophile.com/crss/node/80528 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 02:20:04 +0000 CreeDo 80528 at http://typophile.com Kerning. Where to begin? http://typophile.com/node/74652 <p>So,</p> <p>My first font. So far I made all the glyphs of all the 6 families of my font and spaced them as best as I could. Created oldstyle-, ornament-, smallcaps-, ligatures- and discretionary ligature features.</p> <p>Now come the tidious part I understand. Kerning. What is the best way to go about it??<br /> I was thinking about beginning to kern the Capital A next to lowercase glyphs with classes.<br /> then B, C, etc. etc.</p> <p>Question 1:<br /> If I do it this way, can I work with classes in the kerning panel? Like this:</p> <p>_kern1: A' @_lc @_sc</p> <p>Question 2:</p> <p>If I want to kern the lowercase a next to the capital A, do I have to drag in all of the a-diacretics symbols as well? Or do those composite glyphs just follow a when it is kerned</p> http://typophile.com/node/74652#comments How kerning learn how to kern noob where to begin Build http://typophile.com/crss/node/74652 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:50:25 +0000 Symn 74652 at http://typophile.com