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 design1K discussions 14.7K comments Most recent: Colour Fonts + MS Word + Windows Dark Mode by Daniel Yacob October 21
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Honest and constructive feedback from other professionals. For release announcements, use the Type Releases category.444 discussions 9.4K comments Most recent: A new Art Deco, and the hunt for Broadway Greek/Cyrillic by Tural Alisoy 11:41AM
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Discussions specific to FontLab, Glyphs, AFDKO, Superpolator, Prepolator, Robofab, TTX, FontTools, UFOStretch, DTL Software, MS-Volt, Fontforge, etc.538 discussions 7.3K comments Most recent: Implementing OpenType calt or init with Latin script in 2024 by durkdurk October 21
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Lettering and Calligraphy
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Technique and theory of lettering and calligraphy82 discussions 1.1K comments Most recent: What is tag in ApplySubstitution feature at Fontforge by WAY KYI July 3
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Typography
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Discuss the history of typography here.300 discussions 3.3K comments Most recent: The Number sign—now and then—across languages. by Kent Lew October 9
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The category for typographic and educational resources.66 discussions 725 comments Most recent: Slightly differentiating a glyph’s instances by Domenico Statuto October 20
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Announcements
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Announce talks, conferences, workshops, weekends, competitions, etc. here.79 discussions 419 comments Most recent: Latin One: 6-week type design course starting Oct 23, 2024 by Nicole Dotin October 8
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Post permanent or freelance/temporary job postings for type and lettering here.105 discussions 628 comments Most recent: OUP is seeking a Global Fonts Manager by John Savard June 15
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Announce new type releases here. Please do not copy/paste your marketing copy.148 discussions 249 comments Most recent: Pesteh Perso-Arabic Typeface! (Official Font Release) by Amir Mesbahi August 31
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Any news that doesn’t fit in other Announcements categories. Software announcements go in the software category.162 discussions 1.6K comments Most recent: Direct variable font support in Adobe OpenType Feature Files: Change review by skef October 21
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About TypeDrawers
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116 discussions 1.3K comments Most recent: Asking for free fonts on Type Drawers by Nick Shinn October 8
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