TypeDrawers
A discussion forum for professionals and enthusiasts in the fields of typeface design, lettering, and typography.
Category List
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Typeface Design
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Discussion specific to font technology.
815 discussions 8.7K comments Most recent: Creative Fabrica - AI Font Generator by Cristóbal Alarcón April 9
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Technique and theory of typeface design
1.1K discussions 15K comments Most recent: Regarding the new Saudi riyal currency symbol by leksendesign April 9
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Honest and constructive feedback from other professionals. For release announcements, use the Type Releases category.
450 discussions 9.5K comments Most recent: Elemaints - A Serif Family with Optical Sizes by John Butler April 10
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Discussions specific to FontLab, Glyphs, AFDKO, Superpolator, Prepolator, Robofab, TTX, FontTools, UFOStretch, DTL Software, MS-Volt, Fontforge, etc.
549 discussions 7.4K comments Most recent: Free open source tool for making color font by mitradranirban April 10
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Lettering and Calligraphy
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Typography
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The category for those who teach design.
117 discussions 1.4K comments Most recent: Calling all aspiring font designers! by Tofu Type Foundry April 10
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Announcements
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Announce talks, conferences, workshops, weekends, competitions, etc. here.
82 discussions 429 comments Most recent: Announcing Font Business Conference 2025 - call for proposals by Thomas Phinney April 14
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Post permanent or freelance/temporary job postings for type and lettering here.
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Announce new type releases here. Please do not copy/paste your marketing copy.
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Any news that doesn’t fit in other Announcements categories. Software announcements go in the software category.
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About TypeDrawers
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117 discussions 1.3K comments Most recent: notdef in Oculi text font makes it a bad choice by Kent Lew January 14
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