Category: in progress
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Japanese stab binding #45 & 46:memories and souvenirs
JSB memories: 57 holes, JSB souvenirs: 51 holes, both straightforward. Hello all! It’s been quite a while since my last bookbinding post, but a lot has happened in the past year. I both completed a masters degree and got married, moved between two continents and three countries, and am still…
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glyphs: “shovel face” font
Most of the font work I do is with FontLab, but lately I’ve been taking time to experiment with both Glyphs and FontForge. I have test fonts going for both, because there isn’t any better way of learning font design software than creating the letters from scratch (merely opening an…
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Coalescence, revisited
A couple of years ago, I finally completed my thesis project for grad school. It started with a font I created. I really liked the design, and the meaning I had ascribed to it. But all I had time for were the lowercase letters – and being so new to…
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font progress
A sample of how my text font is coming along. Still editing capitals and letter spacing…and next week, I’ll be adding numbers as well. For my japanese stab binding readers, I promise that my next post will be either a tutorial or a new bind!
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A new font exercise
As part of my training at my new job with SIL International, I’ve been practicing drawing and digitizing Roman fonts. One day I will move on to non-Roman scripts, which I’m very excited about. But for now it’s been fun to mess about with this design. My parameters were to…
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Paramithi: R and K edits
I was told before leaving Cooper that my capitals were too formal when paired with the lowercase. Since the lowercase has the effect that I wanted, I am rethinking the caps. The R and K needed the most help anyway so I started with them. I’m also evaluating the thickness…
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type@cooper…day 19
Today is the last day! I fly out of NYC tomorrow. It’s been a great learning experience, and while I might be ‘finished’ here, I’ve still got a lot of work to do on my typefaces! I’ll still post my progress from time to time, because I know everyone is…
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type@cooper…day 18
This is my current progress on the Paramithi font. My numbers and punctuation still need work, as do a few capitals. And one day I will have more alternate capitals! <<Paramithi>>
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type@cooper…day 17
Here’s what I’ve been frantically working on all weekend! I’ve still got edits to make, but it seems to be coming together. Right now I’m working on numbers and more punctuation. Woo!
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type@cooper…day 16…and MATTHEW CARTER!
…which is the reason I haven’t posted anything else today. We have a critique with him tomorrow and all of us have been frantically working to get stuff ready and put together! So tired!! For those of you who have never heard of Matthew Carter
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