This would be my favourite lettering medium, except someone keeps stealing my stylus and chewing on it.
In the font making soundtrack this week: a playlist consisting entirely of John Prine’s ‘Angel from Montgomery’ recorded by various singers and bands. There are *many*.
I recently came across this great photograph of my father teaching at Leeds College of Art in the late 1950s. Coincidentally, I was dressed very similarly.
In case you needed another reason not to use Adobe’s ‘optical’ kerning setting.
https://github.com/microsoft/Skeena-Indigenous-Typeface/issues/38

Combining marks break Adobe ‘optical’ kerning · Issue #38 · microsoft/Skeena-Indigenous-Typeface
This was reported by Tanya White (Gudangée Tláats’gaa), a graphic designer from the Haida Nation. I have tested and confirmed that this is not a font issue, but am recording it here as a known envi...
GitHubThe Script Encoding Initiative now has a blog.
https://sei.berkeley.edu/blog/
Blog – Script Encoding Initiative
Script Encoding InitiativeOf the general life lessons I have learned, the one most directly applicable to type design is ‘The more you tidy as you go along, the less of a mess you will have clean up later.’