Phinney on Fonts

in Adobe CC, Affinity, CorelDraw… & most apps with “live” interactive interfaces Many major graphics/publishing apps have made some poor user interface choices for variable fonts.

Probably.

Imaginary physical emoji being added to a document tl;dr: You can’t do it without actually making it an emoji, or using a custom font that has the character.

About a month and a half ago, I explained a bunch of reasons I was migrating my own content off of Quora, the knowledge-sharing site.

I have fielded many versions of this question: “What does the emoji with an X in a large rectangle mean?”

Many of the same questions could reasonably be in play, whether one is choosing an existing typeface, commissioning a typeface, customizing an existing typeface, or designing a new typeface oneself.

Because Quora turned to junk Back around 2013–2021, I really liked Quora.

“It is my understanding that not all fonts contain the Unicode character set.

“For example, how much would it cost (roughly) for someone like Hoefler to design a new font family for Mastercard?”

Originally posted on Quora, in response to a user question.