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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Honest and constructive feedback from other professionals. For release announcements, use the Type Releases category.
475 discussions 9.8K comments Most recent: Tainted Sans - a homage to cassette futurism (my first font) by DeadLettering June 9
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Discussions specific to FontLab, Glyphs, AFDKO, Superpolator, Prepolator, Robofab, TTX, FontTools, UFOStretch, DTL Software, MS-Volt, Fontforge, etc.
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Technique and theory of typeface design
1.1K discussions 15.2K comments Most recent: Most common approach to round a non-integer coordinate for Italic Angle? by Michael Rafailyk June 20
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Discussion specific to font technology.
830 discussions 8.9K comments Most recent: Is there a standard way (a symbol or icon) to indicate that a font is variable? by Thomas Phinney June 20
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Discussion specific to making metal type
29 discussions 133 comments Most recent: Drawing the movement: Nelly Gable's book on punchcutting by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland September 2019
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Typography
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The category for those who teach design.
120 discussions 1.4K comments Most recent: Design of the Cyrillic letter Qa /Ԛ /ԛ by Tural Alisoy May 29
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The category for typographic and educational resources.
74 discussions 801 comments Most recent: Case study: SS.I typographic redesign by Joshua Langman June 17
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Lettering and Calligraphy
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Announcements
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Announce talks, conferences, workshops, weekends, competitions, etc. here.
84 discussions 438 comments Most recent: 2 FREE seminars: Fundamentals of the Font Business by Thomas Phinney June 16
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Post permanent or freelance/temporary job postings for type and lettering here.
110 discussions 648 comments Most recent: Software Developer role at Dalton Maag by Paul Hanslow May 28
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Announce new type releases here. Please do not copy/paste your marketing copy.
165 discussions 256 comments Most recent: Wobniar - Variable color bitmap like font by mitradranirban June 15
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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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118 discussions 1.3K comments Most recent: Suggestions: Color Fonts coming out as Black Squares? by John Hudson June 7
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