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• Meet the Moderators

  Announcement 1.2K views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Robert Martin Campbell October 2019TypeDrawers Announcements
• Donate to TypeDrawers

  Announcement 1K views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev April 2019TypeDrawers Announcements
• READ THIS FIRST: The TypeDrawers Rules

  Announcement Closed 4.4K views 0 comments 9 points Started by Stephen Coles October 2014 TypeDrawers Announcements
• MyFonts Font Platform Name Issue

  17 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Jess Latham 2:42AM Type Business
• Precomposed fractions — waste of time and space?

  279 views 31 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard 1:45AMTechnique and Theory
• Type making costs through the ages

  229 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Alex Kaczun January 27History of Typography
• Sculptural Beauty: an invitation to participate

  749 views 17 comments 3 points Most recent by ivan louette January 27Font Technology
• Modern Slab Serif Font

  328 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Curtis January 27Type Design Critiques
• Need name suggestion for the axis controlling apex in variable font

  147 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Muhammad Ariq Syauqi January 27Technique and Theory
• Back to typography but... Software?

  204 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Joel Santos January 27Type Design Software
• Latinized Greek

  2.2K views 101 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard January 26Technique and Theory
• Purchasing old type-specimens

  203 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer January 26History of Typography
• Quotes about typography, not by white guys...

  673 views 13 comments 3 points Most recent by Russell McGorman January 24Education
• How can I compare the set size of two different members of the same font family?

  143 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev January 24Type Design Software
• Granjon's late Cyrillics

  221 views 2 comments 12 points Most recent by Stefan Peev January 24History of Typography
• ATypI's (old) stance on cloning vs. yours

  1.8K views 60 comments 1 point Most recent by James Puckett January 24Type Business
• Looking for guidance on publishing my first font.

  275 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by JoyceKetterer January 22Type Business
• Awesome 1+ yr Font Engineer role in Silicon Valley, CA @ Gr8 tech co!

  853 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by jbrandonaquent January 22Job Postings
• A FontForge plug-in to harmonize or tunnify (balance) or add inflection points to the selected part

  704 views 22 comments 3 points Most recent by Jeremy Dooley January 22Type Design Software
• Why are A and E crossbars so rarely aligned?

  229 views 5 comments -1 point Most recent by Vasil Stanev January 21Technique and Theory
• Request: examples of the Avoiuli writing system

  297 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by tabisini January 21History of Typography
• w_r ligature in script font

  446 views 30 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Cooke January 20Type Design Critiques
• Glyph Collector

  3.8K views 48 comments 5 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer January 19Type Design Software
• Code style is broken

  156 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Dyana Weissman January 19Suggestions and Bug Reports
• Problem with new font websites

  219 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Rémi G. January 19Type Business
• Making JSTF better

  401 views 12 comments 2 points Most recent by Simon Cozens January 17Font Technology
• Crypt type

  500 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer January 17Type Design Critiques
• PS or TT? (aka cubic vs quadratic Bézier curves, or *.otf vs *.ttf)

  598 views 25 comments 0 points Most recent by Belleve Invis January 17Font Technology
• Autohint better than my TTF Hinting–What can I improve?

  120 views 2 comments 2 points Most recent by Lukas Horn January 16Technique and Theory
• Surveying people in the font biz on money in type design

  196 views 0 comments 5 points Started by Thomas Phinney January 16 Type Business
• Do browsers render system fonts and webfonts differently?

  280 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard January 15Font Technology
• Vienna’s Last Signpainter

  251 views 6 comments 3 points Most recent by Nick Curtis January 14History of Typography
• principles for designing Greek "italics" (aka slanted Greek)

  188 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Christian Thalmann January 13Technique and Theory