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• READ THIS FIRST: The TypeDrawers Rules

  Announcement Closed 155 views 0 comments 5 points Started by James Hultquist-Todd June 21 TypeDrawers Announcements
• Donate to TypeDrawers

  Announcement 1.7K views 34 comments 1 point Most recent by George Thomas June 20TypeDrawers Announcements
• Meet the Moderators

  Announcement 938 views 3 comments 3 points Most recent by Silas June 10TypeDrawers Announcements
• Why no movable type revolution in Asia in the countries that have a limited number of characters?

  103 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Aaron Bell August 1History of Typography
• Final/intial features

  801 views 12 comments 2 points Most recent by John Hudson August 1Technique and Theory
• Will I run into any issues if I don't include all the glyphs from a codepage (i.e skipping ∏∑√∂)?

  163 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Michael Rafailyk August 1Technique and Theory
• Where do I find which glyphs are required for a given language?

  322 views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Pircher August 1Resources
• How to implement Bulgarian glyphs with grave that have no unicode (А̀ О̀ У̀ … а̀ о̀ у̀ …)?

  456 views 27 comments 0 points Most recent by Adam Twardoch August 1Type Design Critiques
• New Font Alilato Arabic Font

  173 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard July 30Type Business
• Extreme Font Weirdness

  206 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by André G. Isaak July 30Font Technology
• Anyone up for a Game of Hypotheticals?

  845 views 45 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney July 30Type Business
• Microsoft Visual TrueType Version 6.35 [July, 2021 release]

  38 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Paul Linnerud July 30 Type Design Software
• Legal questions reg. custom type copyright

  449 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by JoyceKetterer July 29Type Business
• FAIL: 'created' timestamp seems very low; regarding as unix timestamp

  212 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Hin-Tak Leung July 27Font Technology
• Display Serif w/ tall letters

  239 views 20 comments 0 points Most recent by Drawcard July 27Type Design Critiques
• Tesserae — an experiment in modular variable fonts

  2.3K views 52 comments 3 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer July 27Type Design Critiques
• White on black

  389 views 24 comments 2 points Most recent by Scott-Martin Kosofsky July 26Font Technology
• Industrial typefaces

  587 views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Russell McGorman July 26Technique and Theory
• I Love Typography Shop

  569 views 11 comments 4 points Most recent by Marc Oxborrow July 26Miscellaneous News
• Testing feature variations with DirectWrite

  272 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Peter Constable July 25Font Technology
• Microsoft word stylistic sets bugs

  214 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Peter Constable July 23Font Technology
• Directory of typeface sellers

  486 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) July 23Type Business
• Typography focused forum for graphic designers (not just type designers)

  409 views 8 comments 2 points Most recent by Cory Maylett July 22Resources
• Type-heavy Instagram accounts to follow

  374 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Eris Alar July 19Resources
• Margo Chase & Madonna

  607 views 25 comments -1 point Most recent by Mark Simonson July 16History of Typography
• Strategies for drawing a variable sans with weight, width, and preferably slant axes

  236 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Ori Ben-Dor July 15Technique and Theory
• What adds value to a font?

  610 views 30 comments 2 points Most recent by Mike Duggan July 15Type Business
• Color font issue (random scaling of glyphs) in Word and PowerPoint

  405 views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Martin Wenzel July 13Font Technology
• Hamburger Button

  435 views 20 comments 2 points Most recent by John Hudson July 12Font Technology
• Looking for references of very heavy serifs with diagonal stress

  959 views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Ori Ben-Dor July 11Technique and Theory
• Microsoft Visual TrueType Version 6.34 [December, 2020 release]

  919 views 38 comments 1 point Most recent by Viktor Rubenko July 8Type Design Software
• FontLab and Glyphs — Round-trip font development (July 2021)

  348 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney July 7Font Technology
• Font revival from A to B

  730 views 26 comments 2 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer July 7Technique and Theory