http://www.kltf.de News from KLTF Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:30:00 +0000 en http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_morefunnygames.htm Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:30:00 +0000 admin Some of Adam Twardoch's comments to Edo Smitshuijzen's earlier Tasmeem review have been removed from the KHTT website. http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_morefunnygames.htm http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_drkarowawardtomilo.htm Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000 admin The second Dr Peter Karow Award for Font Technology and Digital Typography goes to Thomas Milo of DecoType. http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_drkarowawardtomilo.htm http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_woff.htm Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:00:00 +0000 admin Mozilla announces that Firefox 3.6 will be the first browser to support the wOFF font format. http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_woff.htm http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_raster.htm Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:30:40 +0000 admin The web font discussion is centered around the ideal web font format. But web fonts will draw attention to another aspect too: rasterization. http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_raster.htm http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_arabicfontspecimen.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 26:24:07 +0000 admin With some hours left before catching the train, I spent a brief visit to my favorite bookshop and encountered the Arabic Font Specimen Book. http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_arabicfontspecimen.htm http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_otm.htm Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:01:00 +0000 admin The table editor DTL OTMaster makes it easy to edit CFF-based or TT-based OpenType fonts via user interface. http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_otm.htm http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_crumb.htm Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:00:00 +0000 admin Not related to type design or font production, here is a picture from a wonderful Robert Crumb concert at Museum Ostwall in Dortmund. http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_crumb.htm http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes.htm#anchors Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:08:00 +0000 admin FontLab Studio's 'Anchors' are useful for defining mark attachment points (the 'mark' feature will play a larger role in future fonts), yet the interface to deal with them is more than spartanic. Regard 'FLS Anchors Feature Request' as my personal wishlist. http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes.htm#anchors http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_ace1.htm Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:07:00 +0000 admin During the past months I was a bit involved in a project which I consider to be the most refreshing take on layout and font technology that I have seen in years, DecoType's ACE. ACE is a layout engine for typesetting Arabic. It is available for use in InDesign ME as a plug-in called Tasmeem. But how to produce fonts for ACE? http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_ace1.htm http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_otpriorities.htm Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:06:00 +0000 admin One of the questions for which I have not found a good answer yet is this: Imagine that a typographer/designer inserts a glyph directly via a layout application's glyph palette. Also imagine that this glyph is an unencoded alternate variant, usually this is accessed by typing (which inserts an encoded character) plus applying an OT layout feature. http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_otpriorities.htm http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_borders.htm Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:05:00 +0000 admin My TypeTech presentation for ATypI 2007 Conference in Brighton, about connecting different kinds of applications and tools. http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_borders.htm http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_thanksms.htm Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:04:00 +0000 admin This is not really a font production note. It's about digital typography: about WPF and 'flow documents'. http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_thanksms.htm http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_kerning1.htm Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:03:00 +0000 admin Spacing and kerning are essential parts of type design. They are responsible for the rhythm which a typeface's black and white forms creates on the page. Kerning a typeface is hard work, even more so when glyph sets get bigger. Only recently it occurred to me that DTL KernMaster might be a helpful kerning assistant. http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_kerning1.htm http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes.htm#spacingissues Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:02:00 +0000 admin 'Spacing Issues' is an old text on fine typographic spacing and the necessity of spacing punctuation marks generously. Since English speaking typographers claim that this may be ok for European but definitely not British or American typography, I try to show that until just a few decades ago, punctuation marks indeed were spaced in both British and American book. http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes.htm#spacingissues http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_concept1.htm Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:01:00 +0000 admin Designing a typeface is more than drawing a handful of letter forms and filling in the slots offered in the main font window of one's favorite font editor. Even a designer who abhors technology and the things that happen behind the graphical surface of any font editor needs to make up his mind about some fundamental questions. http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes_concept1.htm http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes.htm Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:00:00 +0000 admin All previous Font Production Notes can be found here. http://www.kltf.de/kltf_notes.htm