Line-spacing: getting it right
If you’re a new font designer wondering how to set your OpenType font’s em-height and line-spacing, the advice you’ll find... Read more »
Category: Typography
Creating bold weights in FontForge
The Coelacanth typeface I’m creating is classic Venetian style, harking back to an age before bold type was invented. Bruce... Read more »
Kern Baby — Typographic kerning aid
To save time and eyesight, use this text for testing character-spacing and kerning. It has all the usual character combos,... Read more »
Creating an italic font for Coelacanth
When designing the Coelacanth typeface, my remake of Bruce Roger’s Centaur, I created the italics from scratch because I didn’t... Read more »
Coelacanth: a type family inspired by Bruce Rogers’ Centaur
Of the hundreds of thousands of free fonts on the web, only a tiny handful are ‘text’ fonts suitable for... Read more »