Love this new little clip from Andy Cruz of House Industries (tireless heroes of the type design industry):

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGihdIyEHZI

The precision and refinement of the drawing of Antique Olive is extraordinary.
👋 The drawing of the t is a perfect example.

:bookmarker:
Nice new source with type design tools: https://font-tools.com/

(created by Olli Meier)

Adobe plans and pricing for creative professionals

Want to use the Adobe Fonts service but don’t want to pay $70/month for Creative Cloud? You can subscribe to InCopy for $5/month (which includes Adobe Fonts): www.adobe.com/plans/creati...

Just learned this from Tom Phinney: typedrawers.com/discussion/c...

Sent from my new Fairphone! 😀

Screenshot from www.fontdrop.info that shows axis values for variable fonts.

It is just a small thing in #fontdrop — for variable fonts FontDrop will now also show the specific axis values for a predifined instance (this was not shown before).

➡️ https://fontdrop.info/

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Fonts & AI — the first conference of its kind.
Among the topics discussed during this 2-day online event:

Ethics & AI
AI & Copyright Protection
AI in Type Design
Threats & Opportunities

Book here
trust.ilovetypography.com/fonts-and-ai/

Screenshot from website FontDrop with IBM Plex Sans Simplified Chinese

Checking CJK fonts in #fontdrop is slow, but also fun..

Screenshot from www.fontdrop.info, showing the new copy to clipboard button.

✅ Added another little exrtra on #fontdrop : There is a copy to clipboard button now for #unicode glyphs in the glyphs overview for quickly copying characters.

Screenshot from the navigation on www.fontdrop.info

There is aiso an impoved navigation at the end of the website!

Screenshot from the subpage advance width report on www.fontdrop.info

There is a new subpage on #fontdrop -- Advance Width Report:

It sorts the glyphs of a given font by width.

There are predefined character groups, such as uppercase and lowercase letters. There's a text input for adding additional characters and a tolerance […]

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Screenshot of the new vertical metrics report in FontDrop.

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Before the summer break starts I've added a vertical metrics report to #FonttDrop!

Quickly displays and shows all the https://fontdrop.info/#/vmetrics metrics values of a #font file.

Check here:
https://fontdrop.info/#/vmetrics

(Bug fixing after the summer break 🙃)

Salou #fontfacts For the publication of the typeface Salou, I’ve created a fun series of font facts as an alternative font specimen. This was originally…

Just for font! -- For the release of my typeface Salou I've created a series of so called #fontfacts ... an alternative specimen experiment on Instagram. Now you can read all the facts in one place:

viktornuebel.medium.com/salou-fontfa...

Fontstand font user survey.

We’re are launching an independent industry-wide survey for font users. We want to hear about your experiences: What works? What’s confusing or frustrating? What would you change? Your answers will help us decide how licensing works within the Fontstand Cooperative.

fontstand.com/survey

Free Trial Fonts - Working With Type The typefaces Blockrock, Babetta, Oliva, Rethink, Salou and Twista are available as trial fonts. Trial fonts have a limited character set. You can download the fonts for testing and getting to know th...

📣 There are free trial versions of most of my fonts available now on my website. Feel free to take as much as you like: viktornuebel.com/retail-fonts... 😀

Viktor Nübel FontDrop is a simple drag and drop website which shows the content of OpenType or TrueType font files and helps you to see what’s inside them. FontDrop is free of charge and developed by Viktor Nübel.

buymeacoffee.com/fontdrop/c/13748137

... I really appreciate the coffee support for FontDrop! There are many ideas for an updated/next version of FontDrop! in my head, but it will probably need a some extra coffee push one day. ☕ ☕ ☕

White text an dark background, saying Font Wars.

I've started a little series with expressions from the font world and short explanations... over on the other channel, if you're interested: www.instagram.com/working_with...

Use FontDrop! Offline Because this question or wish has come up a few times, here is a quick and simple way to use FontDrop! as an offline standalone app.

Because this question has come up a few times, here is a way to use FontDrop! as an offline app.. viktornuebel.medium.com/use-fontdrop-offline-fc0...

📝 The few articles I've published on Medium are now also linked on the website ➡️ https://viktornuebel.com/blog/

Text Set in new typeface Salou.

Text set in new typeface Salou, all weights.

Text set in new typeface Salou.

Text set in new typeface Salou, Variable font.

Salou! 🎉  I just have published a new slab-serif #typeface full of character and with clear historical references: #Salou. The font is available in 9 weights and two styles and all in one #VariableFont ! A great challenging design process...

More here: viktornuebel.com/retail-fonts...

A first #hello here on #bluesky !👋