Peter Nowell

Designer working across typography, graphic design, UI/UX, web, and branding. Created Sketch Master. Now working on Font Proofer!

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

After 3 years in the making, I just launched my big new project! Font Proofer is a tool for typeface designers to test their work-in-progress fonts. https://t.co/AraiPwYxJs

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

@hostnotion your service appears to be offline. Any info about it? Can you confirm you’re investigating?

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

I always love waking up to a new article by @marcedwards! Always so thorough. 🤓
“Design tool canvas handles”
https://t.co/WIFGiyML81

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

@morgane_pierson @Stanford Awesome! See you there!

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

@morgane_pierson @Stanford Nice! Will you be visiting or attending virtually?

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

Check out these brilliant typefaces made with Font Proofer in recent months!
https://t.co/YAJpUYy3r6

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[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

Another fascinating novel by @eliotpeper! I was happy to contribute design concepts for the cover, and am delighted with the final result!

[Eliot Peper @eliotpeper]

Hello, world! Meet my new novel.

This is a story about two spies locked in a room with a gun.

This is a story about how semiconductors are refactoring 21st century geopolitics.

This is a story about finding yourself before they find you.

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

@_atilla1 Thank you, Atilla!

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

After 3 years in the making, I just launched my big new project! Font Proofer is a tool for typeface designers to test their work-in-progress fonts. https://t.co/AraiPwYxJs

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

The new Font Proofer update also improves the Glyph Grid layout, letting you justify or align glyphs like lines of text and control exactly which metric lines to show (ex: only left and right side bearings). Many more improvements to Glyph Grid coming soon!

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

This also now works with 🔗 aliases to folders and font files. So you can organize your font files however you want, and add them all to a proof in a couple seconds.

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

Last week’s Font Proofer update brings a lot quality-of-life improvements, including the ability to drag and drop a 📂 folder to add all of its font binaries to a proof—including those in its subfolders! It finds font files up to 4 subfolders deep.

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

It would be great to see design tool makers help make this project a reality, as it will be a valuable resource for app localization and documentation, where precise wording is vital. 💪 @sketch @pieteromvlee @emanuelsa @figma @zoink @marcedwards @framer

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

I’m so excited about the “Words of Type” Kickstarter project! We need more great multilingual resources about typography. And the lectures and workshops are great rewards. I just signed up for a bunch of them! Let’s help make this project a reality! https://t.co/BbUCJbPUjh

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

There are so many great people behind this, with a wealth of experience—helmed by @LisaLisahuang.

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

@mttymtt Not sure about Typographics but one past speaker told me their compensation was a free ticket to the conference the following year (presumably that year too). ATypI charges speakers $250 for a discounted ticket (but I think 25%-33% of their attendees in Paris were speakers).

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

🥰 Always heartwarming to hear this from great designers!

[Diego Maldonado @diegommaldo]

Just discovered one of those things that you always wanted but never knew... thanks for existing Font Proofer / @pnowelldesign

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

@hobdaydesign Thanks Anthony! Not standard at all—I haven't even seen such a feature elsewhere. The icon was surprisingly hard to figure out. For a while I was going to choose a variation on the standard text indent icon, but user feedback wasn’t strong compared to the dots.

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

A breakthrough while designing Font Proofer’s new Sorting feature was letting you choose how to sort font styles *without* a value. I haven’t seen this any other software. Info like a designer name, width value, or custom axis value could be missing—especially in some formats.

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

One of the things that makes Font Proofer’s new Sorting feature so powerful is that it reconciles font info from different formats (static and variable binaries, UFOs, Glyphs masters, and Glyphs instances)—so you can sort any combination of them. And you can now see this info:

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

Font Proofer can now automatically *sort* your font styles! Although sorting seems simple, fonts are so complex and diverse that it was a fascinating challenge. You can sort by 24 attributes—including weight, slant angle, format, version, and axis values.
https://t.co/Xve8cthkh6

[Peter Nowell @pnowelldesign]

@SophiaTypeLove @googlefonts Congratulations, Sophia!!!