http://talleming.com Tal's Blog Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:57:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've never liked the way fraction feature is usually implemented in OpenType fonts. I thought I was the only person until Kent Lew wrote to me with the same frustration. We talked about it a bit and I worked up a possible solution. Here goes... The Current Situation The standard fraction feature ... http://talleming.com/2008/04/16/fraction-fever/ As a child, I was fascinated by this sign. It was located along the route my family would take into Baton Rouge and I remember sitting in the backseat of our car with my face pressed against the window eagerly waiting to see it. I think this was the first ... http://talleming.com/2008/04/15/ten-flags-inn/ My friend Dave Hotstream has been posting photos of his neighborhood. That inspired me to dust off iPhoto and compile a set of photos of my own neighborhood. I'm a lettering nerd, so I usually take photos of signs. Luckily, my neighborhood is full of old, beautiful and/or weird specimens. Most ... http://talleming.com/2007/09/29/signs-in-my-neighborhood/ Among the avalanche of code I just open sourced is a humble little application called FeatureProof. This application is an environment for testing features in OpenType fonts. I've been thinking about this tool since TypoTechnica 2005. During a round table discussion at that conference, Erik van Blokland and I made the ... http://talleming.com/2007/09/21/featureproof-beta-1/ I'm happy to announce that I've decided to open source a large portion of of my font development code repository. This batch of code includes core libraries for building font development applications, FontLab scripts and one full fledged application. At last count it was around 25,643 lines of Python code. Why ... http://talleming.com/2007/09/21/codetypesupplycom/ I recently launched a new site for my company. I put a lot of thought and work into it, and a few people have asked me questions about the tools I used, why I did some things the way that I did and stuff like that. I love behind-the-scenes, making-of ... http://talleming.com/2007/09/10/type-supply-website-the-making-of/ With the launch of the new Type Supply website I've decided to turn this site into a blog. Yes, I'm finally jumping into the year 2001. So, here I am. I tend to be shy, secretive about my work and more interested in listening than talking. However, every now and then ... http://talleming.com/2007/09/07/hello-world/