In order to accomplish this, some digital type design conventions have been avoided - things like the uniformity of the serifs, overall stroke precision, vertical proportion exactitude. In digitizing this typeface, attention was mainly given to duplicate the technical imperfections of 16th century printing, which have been lost with today's technologies. Some reduced resolution scans of Guyot's roman are also included in this archive. 1 - 15," by John Dreyfus et al, printed in London circa 1963.
The last recorded reference to Guyot's type can be found in "Type Specimen Fascimiles, vol. Some specimens from unknown English printers dating back to circa 1650 also show the same typeface, but no proper references were given. Original matrices of Guyot's roman type are now in the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp.Ī 1782 "Sale Catalog & Specimen of the James Foundry" shows a reproduction of that same type under the name "Two-Line Double Pica Macilent". Day, in London (the name Day Roman is simply a reference to J. Steelsius's printing of The Bible (1541) and Frisius (1551), Gillis Coppens van Diest's printing of Erasmus (1544), Georgius (1544), Serlio (1550) and Horatius (1552), and Rotarius's printing of Livius Brechtius (1549). and DTL’s FontTools shop (web addresses are mentioned above).The two-tiers font included in this archive, Day Roman, is a digitally redrawn version of what has come to be historically known as the "Two Line Double Pica Roman", a typeface designed by 16th century French punchcutter François Guyot, and used in numerous books between 15, most notable of which are J.
#Fontlab 4.0 upgrade
Registered users owning any other previous versions can upgrade for € 50.ĭTL OTMaster 5.0 can be purchased directly from FontLab Ltd. customers can do this via FL Ltd.’s website and DTL customers can apply for this via DTL’s FontTools shop. Current 3.7 licensees are eligible for an upgrade against € 7.50 administration and handling costs.
#Fontlab 4.0 mac os x
Please note that because of the inclusion of Harfbuzz the lowest supported Mac OS X version is Lion (instead of Snow Leopard in case of version 3.7) now.įrom today on until the 6th of January 2015, OTM 5.0 can be purchased with a special 25% Christmas-holiday discount.
#Fontlab 4.0 for mac os
Enhanced and now fully mature Glyph Editor (basically a compact version of DTL FontMaster), with improved guideline and grid functionality, improved measurement options, new clipboard with support for multiple entries, etcetera, etcetera.ĭTL OTMaster 5.0 is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Updated Side by Side Viewer, which contains among other new options, a ‘Winding fill’ as opposed to the standard fill option. Updated Font Viewer, containing now a search field for glyphs, unicodes. Support for all the competing color OpenType font extensions: Microsoft’s ‘COLR’/‘CPAL’, Adobe’s ‘SVG’, Apple’s ‘sbix’, and Google’s ‘CBDT’/‘CBLC’. It contains a nice three-state features selector (on / default / off). New powerful Text Viewer, which includes Harfbuzz for the interpretation of OpenType Layout features. Version 5.0 contains a range of additional functionality, among which: This makes OTMaster a great companion to any font editor and an indespensable element even in the most complex OpenType font production workflow.’ To quote Adam Twardoch, product and marketing manager at Fontlab Ltd.: ‘ OTMaster works with surgical precision: it will only modify the portions of the font that the developer wishes, leaving all other structures unchanged.
#Fontlab 4.0 professional
OTM is a must-have for professional font developers. A new version of DTL OTMaster (OTM), the highly sophisticated tool for reviewing, editing, and altering tables and glyphs of fonts with a SFNT-file structure, has become available since today.
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