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Viktor Nübel
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Working With Type // www.fontdrop.info // www.viktornuebel.com
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Want to use the Adobe Fonts service but don’t want to pay $70/month for Creative Cloud? You can subscribe to InCopy for $5/month (which includes Adobe Fonts): www.adobe.com/plans/creati...

Just learned this from Tom Phinney: typedrawers.com/discussion/c...
Adobe plans and pricing for creative professionals
www.adobe.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Sent from my new Fairphone! 😀
December 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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It is just a small thing in #fontdrop — for variable fonts FontDrop will now also show the specific axis values for a predifined instance (this was not shown before).

➡️ https://fontdrop.info/

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November 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Fonts & AI — the first conference of its kind.
Among the topics discussed during this 2-day online event:

Ethics & AI
AI & Copyright Protection
AI in Type Design
Threats & Opportunities

Book here
trust.ilovetypography.com/fonts-and-ai/
October 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Checking CJK fonts in #fontdrop is slow, but also fun..
October 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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✅ Added another little exrtra on #fontdrop : There is a copy to clipboard button now for #Unicode glyphs in the glyphs overview for quickly copying characters.
September 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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There is aiso an impoved navigation at the end of the website!
September 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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There is a new subpage on #fontdrop -- Advance Width Report:

It sorts the glyphs of a given font by width.

There are predefined character groups, such as uppercase and lowercase letters. There's a text input for adding additional characters and a tolerance […]

[Original post on typo.social]
September 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Before the summer break starts I've added a vertical metrics report to #fonttdrop!

Quickly displays and shows all the https://fontdrop.info/#/vmetrics metrics values of a #font file.

Check here:
https://fontdrop.info/#/vmetrics

(Bug fixing after the summer break 🙃)
July 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Just for font! -- For the release of my typeface Salou I've created a series of so called #fontfacts ... an alternative specimen experiment on Instagram. Now you can read all the facts in one place:

viktornuebel.medium.com/salou-fontfa...
Salou #fontfacts
For the publication of the typeface Salou, I’ve created a fun series of font facts as an alternative font specimen. This was originally…
viktornuebel.medium.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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We’re are launching an independent industry-wide survey for font users. We want to hear about your experiences: What works? What’s confusing or frustrating? What would you change? Your answers will help us decide how licensing works within the Fontstand Cooperative.

fontstand.com/survey
June 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
📣 There are free trial versions of most of my fonts available now on my website. Feel free to take as much as you like: viktornuebel.com/retail-fonts... 😀
Free Trial Fonts - Working With Type
The typefaces Blockrock, Babetta, Oliva, Rethink, Salou and Twista are available as trial fonts. Trial fonts have a limited character set. You can download the fonts for testing and getting to know th...
viktornuebel.com
May 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
buymeacoffee.com/fontdrop/c/13748137

... I really appreciate the coffee support for FontDrop! There are many ideas for an updated/next version of FontDrop! in my head, but it will probably need a some extra coffee push one day. ☕ ☕ ☕
Viktor Nübel
FontDrop is a simple drag and drop website which shows the content of OpenType or TrueType font files and helps you to see what’s inside them. FontDrop is free of charge and developed by Viktor Nübel.
buymeacoffee.com
May 5, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I've started a little series with expressions from the font world and short explanations... over on the other channel, if you're interested: www.instagram.com/working_with...
April 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Because this question has come up a few times, here is a way to use FontDrop! as an offline app.. https://viktornuebel.medium.com/use-fontdrop-offline-fc08a4a6fcb3
Use FontDrop! Offline
Because this question or wish has come up a few times, here is a quick and simple way to use FontDrop! as an offline standalone app.
viktornuebel.medium.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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📝 The few articles I've published on Medium are now also linked on the website ➡️ https://viktornuebel.com/blog/
Blog - Working With Type
All article are published on Medium. There is also an RSS-Feed that you can follow.
viktornuebel.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Salou! 🎉  I just have published a new slab-serif #typeface full of character and with clear historical references: #Salou. The font is available in 9 weights and two styles and all in one #VariableFont ! A great challenging design process...

More here: viktornuebel.com/retail-fonts...
February 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A first #hello here on #bluesky !👋
December 19, 2024 at 10:06 AM