Archive: Fonts category

Being in a font design sort of mood, I was reading last month's MyFonts newsletter interview with Jim Parkinson, and I came across this bit on how he starts out: Every alphabet or typeface I did from Hallmark on until the End of Analog was done in essentially the same ...
On days when I'm tired (like today), it seems like designing is a whole lot easier than writing. Drafting out the new stake leadership directory went smoothly, but even just the thought of writing was enough to make me want to take a nap. (Which is what I ...
I was looking at Mike Clark's TextMate Cheat Sheet for Rails Hackers a minute ago and saw the Command key sign (⌘, if your font has it). It was the first time I realized that the symbol had to be in a font somewhere (yes, I know, I'm ...
I tried cleaning out my fonts folder (with FontExplorer X) and that didn't help at all. Why aren't the fonts showing up in the Adobe apps?!? I checked Illustrator CS and the fonts do show up and I can use them just fine. So what changed in ...
Ever since I upgraded to Adobe CS2, I haven't been able to access my Thai fonts from within Adobe apps. I can still see them in TextEdit and Font Book and even Word, but Illustrator and InDesign (and probably Photoshop too) don't even show them in the font list. ...