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Critique Request for Gothic Gumdrop (100% AI-generated submission to Google Fonts)10 hrs

Hi Everyone,

The Google Fonts contributor guidelines pointed me to this forum as a safe place to get feedback on my type designs. I was hoping to get feedback on a recent font I created called

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Is wordpress a good idea to create a personal font shop?16 hrs

Hello all,
I'm new to web design and I plan to set up shop parallel with MyFonts 'cause I'm highly dissatisfied with them taking the lion's share of my sales (and probably also hiding some of the sales so they can pocket them, but that's another story).
I'm currently beginning to search for options to do the store on wordpress before I decide whetehr I should or should not...

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When did high-waisted (and low-waisted) fonts/lettering first appear?5 days

There's a period charm to typefaces with intentionally high middles of letters like /B/E/F/H/K/S. Sometimes A/P/R join in, or sometimes they instead have intentionally low middles. /M and /W and maybe /N might get in the act too. I associate this quirk with Jugendstil (central European Art Nouveau) around the turn of the twentieth century, as in these examples:But it can be...

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Type design apps/software for young people5 days

Passing on a question from a friend: does anyone know of any apps/programs for youngsters to make fonts? The suggested analog was TinkerCAD, but for type design. I’ve suggested Rob Meeks’s FontStruct, but maybe other folks have good suggestions?

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