Following up on the ttfautohint as a service, here is an updated service with the 0.9 binary. Just download, un-zip, and double-click on the ttfautohint workflow. OS X will prompt you to open or install, choose install, and choose to replace the existing workflow. This service only works in OS X Lion 10.7 and newer.
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Following up on the ttfautohint as a service, here is an updated service with the 0.8 binary. Just download, un-zip, and double-click on the ttfautohint workflow. OS X will prompt you to open or install, choose install, and choose to replace the existing workflow. This service only works in OS X Lion 10.7 and newer.
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Playfair Display is nearing completion and will soon be available on Google Fonts.
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Werner Lemberg is developing a novel auto-hinter for TrueType fonts. It is based on the FreeType rasterizer.
To make it easy for typeface designers to test the capabilities of ttfautohint I have created a self-contained Service for OS X. Please note that ttfautohint is pre-release software and should not be used for production purposes. Please note that ttfautohint is released under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 2.
Just un-zip and double-click the ttfautohint file. OS X will prompt you to either edit or install the Service; choose install. Done.
Use it by right-clicking on one or more TTFs, then choose ttfautohint from within the Services menu-item. The Service will now start auto-hinting the fonts and save them in the same folder under new names in the style of foo.AH.ttf.
There have been some reports of problems installing and running this Service in versions of OS X earlier than 10.7. If you run into trouble try manually placing the Service in ~/Library/Services/, and if that folder does not exist, create it first.
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Just got an Honorable Mention on Typographica’s Our Favorite Typefaces of 2011 list for my Playfair Display, and it’s even one of the editor’s favourites. Thank you Mr. Coles!
Let me also use this occasion to send a big thank you to Google Webfonts for funding my work on this family. The latin-script fonts are nearing completion, and if all goes according to schedule they should be out within the next month. These are the semi-bold, bold, black uprights and matching italics, including small caps for all weights and styles.
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