People working with engraving machines and vinyl sign-cutting machines sometimes ask for special fonts that are made with single-stroke lines instead of closed shapes. Even though this is not legal in the font formats, it is possible to work around it in FontLab Studio 5 and TypeTool 3. Here’s how, and why you might be fooled into thinking you have failed even when successful.
Please join us for an exciting new free webinar for beginning type designers!
Typerobics: Type design exercises
with Fábio Duarte Martins
Tuesday 16 June 2015
9:00 am Pacific / noon Eastern / 16.00 GMT / 18.00 CEST
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Are your letters feeling out of shape? Do you aspire to win the regional kerning championship? Typerobics is a type-making workout régime intended to shape up your Bézier biceps. Every sport requires exercise, and so does type design. Typerobics is your type design fitness plan: pick a word, pick a typographic style, draw that word in under 40 minutes-then repeat at least three times a week.
I’ve posted a new beta build (5611) of FontLab Studio 5 version 5.1.5.
This is a test version of a free update, which will require you enter your FontLab serial number during the install. I suggest you first rename your existing FontLab Studio 5.app to, say “FontLab Studio 5 old.app” before you install the new build. This way you can run your previous version at any time if the new version proves an unworthy successor in any way. I do not expect it, but it is better to be cautious in such things.
Update April 8, 2015: OS X 10.10.3 shipped today, and as hoped, the final shipping version does not in fact break FontLab Studio 5.1.4 (or 5.1.2; earlier 5.0.x versions are probably also okay but not tested).
We would like to take this opportunity to reiterate our appreciation for our friends and colleagues at Apple: they proactively alerted us to the problem, and then later changed path to avoid triggering it with the actual shipping 10.10.3 update when it came. A class act all around!
As announced April 1, FontLab Studio 5.1.5 build 5568 (release candidate 1) is available (since replaced by FontLab Studio 5.1.5 build 5611, release candidate 2). Because it is possible that a future Mac OS X build will cause the same problem we previously saw, we will continue testing 5.1.5 and expect to make it available in the future.
Use FontLab Studio 5 to Make Connecting Script Fonts with Laura Worthington
Tuesday 20 Jan 2015
9:00 am Pacific / noon Eastern / 19:00 CEST
$24.95
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DTL OTMaster 5 is here! It’s a major advance in OpenType proofing and table-editing for Mac and Windows, and it’s 25% off until Jan 6, €191.25 instead of €255.
Upgrades are only €7.50 for registered users of OTMaster 3.7 until Jan 6 (€50 for users of older versions, and for everyone after Jan 6). Use the form at the bottom of our Upgrades page to order.
Holiday sale on the font creation and editing program for graphic designers, Fontographer 5. Save $133, only $266 with coupon. 1/3 OFF FOR FIVE DAYS WITH COUPON CODE! (Coupon expires midnight PST, Friday 12 Dec 2014.)
(Note: this sale has ended, sorry you missed it!)
Yes, as a Cyber Monday special, we just marked down our flagship product, FontLab Studio 5. We figure it’s already Monday for our friends to the east of us! Regular price is US $649, now $324.50. HALF OFF FOR 36 HOURS! (Ends 8 am Tuesday PST, Dec 2 2014.)
There are a limited number of seats available for this webinar, so don’t be disappointed — register now!
Digital Fonts & Typography
for Letterpress Printing
FREE Webinar
Register Now Tues 25 Nov 2014, 9:00 am Pacific / noon Eastern / 19:00 CEST Letterpress Fonts??? On the Web?!?!? Well, sorta....
How to use just a few master fonts to generate dozens of refined final fonts with bigger character sets!
It’s easy: that’s why almost every Adobe typeface is designed using this technology.
Tuesday 28 Oct 28 2014
9:00 am Pacific / noon Eastern / 18:00 CEST.
9:00 am Pacific / noon Eastern / 18:00 CEST.
USD $24.95 (to watch live and/or view the recording at any later date)