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Hi Rashid. Thanks for posting

In reply to Designing a new font for Urdu Language: Hi Rashid. Thanks for posting again in a new thread. It is hard to advice when I don’t know what you’ve done in the past, so I assume you are a...

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Step 1, scan the

In reply to Designing a new font for Urdu Language: Step 1, scan the material Step 2, get into the calligrapher's mind Step 3, make good Urdu It would be hard to be more helpful without knowing more...

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Makes me thinking somehow to

In reply to ENDICOTT-JOHNSON SHOES - early 20th Century: Makes me thinking somehow to Spire but that's far from it. Some more loosely similars: Finalia (probably the closest I have, not enough...

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YESSS :) Thanks a lot. Blind

In reply to Max Bill Poster 1960: YESSS :) Thanks a lot. Blind on both eyes the same time. (Garamont – http://bit.ly/e2rwXC)

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6 years later, but only few

In reply to Corporate initiated typeface designs: 6 years later, but only few people know Zürich-based NORM's corporate typefaces. Along with Aurèle Sack, they have designed the beautiful Omega's and...

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You are using Robofab for

In reply to Kerning Macro, Fontlab API: You are using Robofab for your macro, so you’d want to look at the Robofab docs rather than the FontLab API: http://www.robofab.org/objects/kerning.html I’m not...

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Garamont Deberny &

In reply to Max Bill Poster 1960: Garamont Deberny & Peignot http://www.nonpareille.net/en_GB/page/henry-np [edited: Garamond -> Garamont]

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Robofab doesn't handle

In reply to Kerning Macro, Fontlab API: Robofab doesn't handle kerning in MM fonts, I think Fontlab API does. My macro was done using Robofab but I would like to do the same thing with FL API. I could...

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Yes! I think you are right,

In reply to Help ID this condensed sans serif: Yes! I think you are right, thanks a lot Ryuk! :)

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Here's the blog I ran across

In reply to Is there a name for this kind of type treatment?: Here's the blog I ran across yesterday referencing the term "badge" also "type lockup" was somewhere on the page as well....

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For the benefit of others,

In reply to ...: For the benefit of others, here is a bit of Hrant's link. You can judge the appropriateness of his example yourself: A chef savagely murdered his ex-wife after she taunted him on...

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Thank you for the valuable

In reply to One of the Most Advanced and the Most Beautiful Arabic OT Naskh Font: Thank you for the valuable information.

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Ryan, the same way the length

In reply to French Punctuation (Extra Spacing): Ryan, the same way the length of spaces can vary a lot between fonts — the space in Cycles eleven is 180/1000, which is ten percent less than a thin...

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Is there some master knowing

In reply to dOCUMENTA (13) logotype: Is there some master knowing some of the missing fonts? Thanks for all the help so far!

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I often run into things I've

In reply to ...: I often run into things I've written that I wish I hadn't, but I don't even edit those. I believe in not hiding my mistakes. In fact I hope that others confront them. It's the only way...

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Alignment is not as important

In reply to Vertical Dimensions of Adobe's Source Sans Pro: Alignment is not as important as apparent size. Relative vertical proportions of ascender, x-height and descender are also relevant, which...

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And I thought I was

In reply to Broken Letters: A Typogeography of Europe: And I thought I was embarrassed to be from the rust belt.

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I am nevertheless surprised

In reply to Adobe Devanagari Font: I am nevertheless surprised that so many entries (7692) were added In fact, there were even duplicate entries in the aspell dictionary, so that it is not 7692 but...

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Thanks a lot, Ryuk!

In reply to Please ID this sans serif used by Zalando.: Thanks a lot, Ryuk!

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Thanks Jan. Thought it could

In reply to Please help ID this font!: Thanks Jan. Thought it could have been my eyes as I couldn't see any difference between this sample and the one by Pentagram (same layout, grid, typefaces...)....

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