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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Technique and theory of typeface design
1.1K discussions 15K comments Most recent: Florin vs Latin small letter F with Hook U+0192 by John Savard 7:06PM
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The business side of type design and font licensing.
629 discussions 10.8K comments Most recent: Recommendations on building a foundry website by James Puckett March 14
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Honest and constructive feedback from other professionals. For release announcements, use the Type Releases category.
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Discussions specific to FontLab, Glyphs, AFDKO, Superpolator, Prepolator, Robofab, TTX, FontTools, UFOStretch, DTL Software, MS-Volt, Fontforge, etc.
548 discussions 7.4K comments Most recent: SuffixAutomator for one-to-one substitutions by Michael Rafailyk March 12
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Lettering and Calligraphy
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Typography
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Discuss the history of typography here.
307 discussions 3.4K comments Most recent: Panchanan - A project for digitalisation of first Bengali typeface created by Panchanan Karmakar by John Savard March 12
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Announcements
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Announce talks, conferences, workshops, weekends, competitions, etc. here.
82 discussions 425 comments Most recent: Enterprise Sales + other font production & design courses at ILT Academy by Nadine Chahine March 10
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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.
166 discussions 1.7K comments Most recent: Digital Greek Typography is Broken by Denis Moyogo Jacquerye March 7
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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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