Comments on: Lines and splines

Lines and splines

tepidmonkey — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:45:08 -0800

So You Want to Create a Font (Part 1, Part 2). For something with a less presumptive title, there's this, this, this, this, this, or even this, Eric Gill's An Essay on Typography.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:54:02 -0800

In the wrong hands, this could result in the nest Comic Sans.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:54:28 -0800

er..."next"

By: ALongDecember

ALongDecember — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:17:21 -0800

So You Want to Create a Font This will totally become a show on NBC if the television writers go on strike.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:19:48 -0800

Here's are some amusing Flash presentations (with wonderful audio accompaniment) from German guitarist, luthier and font designer Hans Reichel.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:20:37 -0800

"Here's are some..." Nice. I knew I shoulda gone to college...

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:40:55 -0800

Does anyone know anything about Eric Gill's private life? His fonts look fantastic but I am undecided until I learn more about Gill the man.

By: effwerd

effwerd — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:52:10 -0800

Adventurous font designers might be interested in Spiro by Raph Levien. The curve technology this guy has developed is absolutely amazing. I've been using bezier curves for over a decade (not as a font designer though) and in just two seconds of using his 0.01 prototype, I fell in love with it. The prototype is extremely bare, there isn't even an Open dialog, but you can save. The Typophile thread where he announced it has some more details about the technology and the app.

By: Faze

Faze — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:00:50 -0800

Fire&Wings -- Eric Gill was one weird dude -- suspected of unnatural relations with his daughter (just to mention one thing).

By: Faze

Faze — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:02:16 -0800

Oops. Sorry. Here's the Eric Gill the weirdo link.

By: hal9k

hal9k — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:10:32 -0800

A shame. He had such a nice face.

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:10:37 -0800

Is it mandatory to have a typo in your comment in this typography thread? if so, I like funts. er, fonts.

By: lampoil

lampoil — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:01:33 -0800

Why, yes! I do want to create a font! Nice.

By: -harlequin-

-harlequin- — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:22:18 -0800

One of my many unfinished projects was creating a font for the symbols of the Dumas message, with which to write messages in a universal language. But my downfall was deciding to make it a visually nice font via cosmetic tweaks, instead of being just a blocky exact copy of the coded-in-binary symbols. This decision to slightly stylize the forms meant that the task went from quick and simple, to actually requiring... y'know... a lot of work. I was never too good at that whole Work thing :-) I bring this up because AFAIK the ~~world~~ Universe still needs a font version of the Dumas symbols, so if this FPP got you all fired up to do a font... but you're wondering what kind of font to do... well there you go :)

By: Aversion Therapy

Aversion Therapy — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:01:38 -0800

I went to High School with the guy that created Hoeffler, does that give me any cachet here?

By: the_very_hungry_caterpillar

the_very_hungry_caterpillar — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:13:17 -0800

cool. thanks.