Peter Nowell

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Designer working across typography, graphic design, UI/UX, web, and branding. Type@Cooper alum. Created Sketch Master. Now working on Font Proofer!
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Show threadPeter NowellMar 25
@rgchris Very cool, Chris! Funny enough, the first animated icons I ever made used SMIL animations instead of CSS. It was very laborious, and when I heard that Chrome was ending SMIL support, I adopted CSS animations (that was many years ago, and not sure if they fully dropped SMIL). My biggest challenge with SMIL, aside from the few learning resources and less forgiving syntax (than CSS), was the lack of a timeline, overall speed adjustment, and other tools when orchestrating animations. It often took a day or two to animate one icon. At the time I resisted using JS, but the GreenSock animation framework has all the tools I was seeking, and more. For more complex animations, I think it's well worth the tradeoff. Anyway, it's great to see your excitement about this!
Peter NowellJun 14, 2025
@clauseggers Ah yes, that’s interesting. Just to confirm, this would be like comparing the result of case transformations in various apps/contexts, like `text-transform: uppercase` in CSS. Or in macOS, selecting some text, right-clicking, and choosing Transformations > Make Upper Case. Is that right? (Also, in your example of `i` → `İ`, how should/would an app know that the i is being used in a Turkic language? A locl feature? Nearby characters?
Peter NowellJun 8, 2025
@clauseggers I’m also curious to see an example. Perhaps I could implement it.
Show threadPeter NowellMay 20, 2025
@justvanrossum No, I did not come to a definitive conclusion. I wasn't sure if it was an issue with my code—until I saw the bug report today and the issue sounded familiar. I do make an effort to report bugs to frameworks and to Apple, but it can also be very time consuming and often seems to make no difference. I’m surprised and a bit hurt by the insinuation that I'm exploiting DrawBot without giving back. I'm doing all I can to help the community and donate most of my nights and weekends.
Show threadPeter NowellMay 20, 2025
@justvanrossum @kentlew @jmsole @arrowtype As Kent suggested on the Github issue, the workaround is to limit the size of a formatted string. My solution is simply to slice it into smaller pieces. I wasn't even sure what caused the issue, and I wasn't thrilled about creating a hacky workaround. But it seemed to work. I'm guessing it would be harder to implement this workaround w/in DrawBot—otherwise I would suggest it.
Show threadPeter NowellMay 20, 2025
@justvanrossum @kentlew @jmsole @arrowtype Just, we’ve discussed how difficult it is to maintain and sustain complex tools. First, I had no idea if this was a bug w/ DrawBot, CoreText, or my own code—I just had to fix it. Second, I have posted GitHub issues in the past. I try to. And third, I've been very transparent that the money Font Proofer makes only covers about 10% of what I put in. It's not far from being unpaid. I'm just trying my best to make something useful. We’re on the same team.
Show threadPeter NowellMay 19, 2025
@kentlew @justvanrossum @jmsole Just FYI, Font Proofer has a workaround for this bug. I encountered it a few years ago when @arrowtype made some kerning proofs with content that overflowed to hundreds of pages. Kent, I just recreated the test from your GitHub issue, and can confirm it works.
Peter NowellMay 1, 2025
Show threadStephen ColesApr 30, 2025
And now, what luck, I got to ask Zuzana and Rudy all the things I ever wanted to know about Emigre Fonts: https://letterformarchive.org/news/emigre-fonts-interview/
Behind the Scenes with Licko & VanderLans

We connect with the duo responsible for Emigre Fonts, whose specimens are reproduced in the latest title from Letterform Archive Books.

Letterform Archive
Peter NowellApr 27, 2025
María RamosApr 27, 2025

After two years collecting data from 171 independent type foundries, we publish the first statistics and resources of Font Licensing Mess. Visit the site for knowing more about it https://fontlicensingmess.com/
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Hace un par de años iniciamos la recopilación de datos de 171 fundiciones tipográficas independientes. Por fin podemos publicar los primeros resultados y recursos de Font Licensing Mess. Visita la web para saber más https://fontlicensingmess.com/

#atypicopenhagen #atypi #research #fontlicensing

Font Licensing Mess

Peter NowellApr 17, 2025
Masaki AndoApr 15, 2025

Since last December, I started the Podcast ‘墨とPath’ (Ink and Path), which focuses on type design, typography and life with several guests, with a Japanese type designer in Adobe, Taisei Yoshida.
We publish each episode every three months, and just two days ago, a new episode with Toshi @tosche_e became available.
Even though we talk in Japanese, please check our website if you are interested:)

https://sumi-to-path.com/

墨とPath ✑ Podcast about Letters and Life.

墨とPathは、書体デザイナーの安藤真生と吉田大成がゲストを呼び文字と生活について語らうPodcast。大体三ヶ月ごとに更新していきます。