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23Aug

Advanced Font Metrics in FontLab

by Otba Mushaweh | Posted in Articles | No Comments »

Font file metrics can be stored in one of two tables, [OS/2] or [hhea] tables. Most of programs and operating systems use these tables and FontLab Studio can calculate the metrics according to the system recommendations, However, some type designers faced a problem with ascender and descender brushing up and also in adjusting the line gap when lines of type are set in a new font.  So, you need to be careful If you want to customize your values. Go to FontLab and From File -> Select: File Info.

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16Aug

Book Review: 158 Answers

by Otba Mushaweh | Posted in books | No Comments »

One of the best way to learn is to read for renowned designers from around the world. The students of Type Media postgraduate course in type design have been interviewed eleven renowned type designers and writers about what they consider to be important for the education of future type designers and typographers. The book include an important information about some script like Arabic and how the arabic type market has been growing over the past few years.

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02Aug

Font Book App

by Otba Mushaweh | Posted in News | No Comments »


FontShop has been announced the new FontBook iPad app as the world’s most comprehensive typographic reference tool. The new FontBook app has 620,000 font samples(19 times more than the printed FontBook 4). The FontBook app allows you to look up and view fonts by typeface name, type classification, designer name, foundry name, year of publication, or by similarity of design. One of the major advantages of the FontBook app is that it allows easy combining and comparing of typefaces, as well as one click to sharing over Facebook, Twitter and e-mail.

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26Jul

Inspiration series: Guitar

by Otba Mushaweh | Posted in Showcases | No Comments »

 

The Greeks believed that inspiration came from the deep thinking, and thinking is the process by which these concepts are perceived and manipulated. Thinking allows beings to design and to represent it according to their objectives, desires and plans. So if you have deep thinking, you will have a good inspiration, thus you will be able to design in right way.

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Inspiration series is a regular series of articles which share some of the great examples for logo and type design that we have collected through various sites and design galleries.

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28Jun

Quotes for Logo Designer

by Otba Mushaweh | Posted in Articles | 1 Comment »

Veteran logo designers always have words that inspire you to be creative, Below are some of the more memorable quotes for logo designer.

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21Jun

Inspiration series: Crescent

by Otba Mushaweh | Posted in Showcases | No Comments »

The Greeks believed that inspiration came from the deep thinking, and thinking is the process by which these concepts are perceived and manipulated. Thinking allows beings to design and to represent it according to their objectives, desires and plans. So if you have deep thinking, you will have a good inspiration, thus you will be able to design in right way.

Looking for Logo design inspiration

Inspiration series is a regular series of articles which share some of the great examples for logo and type design that we have collected through various sites and design galleries.

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14Jun

Elementar Font System

by Otba Mushaweh | Posted in Typography | No Comments »

The screen and printer usually used different resolutions. In additional to the differences between operating systems. For example: Apple Mac has a default resolution of 72 dpi, and a Windows PC a default resolution of 96 dpi, whereas printed material is likely to have a resolution of 1200 dpi and upwards. So, The font that designed in scalable size (bezier-curves) does not look good on low resolution monitors because there were not enough pixels available to display the subtlety and style inherent within the font descriptions.

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