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noahw53
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1d ago
Hot take: hand-coding every icon in my set was a waste, a junior dev told me to just build one base SVG and scale it
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the_aaron
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5d ago
The font nerd at the print shop taught me to test my type at 9pt first
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keving93
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6d ago
Rant: a font nerd on Reddit talked me out of variable fonts for my icon set
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eric359
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7d ago
Rant: a guy in Austin told me my icon set looked like "gravestones with hats" and honestly he was right
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amy_reed79
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8d ago
Pro tip: skip the $40 icon pack, it came with files I couldn't even open
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lucas972
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8d ago
Saw a hand-painted shop sign in Lisbon that made me fix my SVG stroke widths
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max388
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10d ago
I paid $180 for a "hand-coded" icon font generator and the SVGs came out with 47 anchor points each
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ray210
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10d ago
A type designer in Portland told me to draw my glyphs at 12px first, and my icons finally stopped looking fuzzy
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the_lee
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11d ago
Vent: dropped $60 on a font editor that can't even handle my kerning pairs right
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diana_bell74
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11d ago
Showerthought: only 4 percent of my custom icon set survived a dark mode swap, and that number stings
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derekwalker
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12d ago
Question about the 3px jump in my variable font when the weight hits 640
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ward.tyler
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13d ago
Spent 6 hours redrawing 42 icons by hand, then found out Figma has a plugin that does it in 4 minutes
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veraramirez
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14d ago
Update: my hand-coded font's lowercase 'e' looked fine at 12px until I printed it at 72pt
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max388
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15d ago
Hot take: a font workshop in Oakland split our table on whether to hand-tune curves or let the script do it
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the_shane
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16d ago
Hot take: my monospaced font made every zero look like a donut and I almost shipped it
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