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TypeDrawers
A discussion forum for professionals and enthusiasts in the fields of typeface design, lettering, and typography.
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Introductions
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Returning to Type Design After 20-Year Hiatus
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Michael O'Laughlin
February 14
Typeface Design
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Font Technology
Discussion specific to font technology.
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Chromatic aberration on iPad
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Technique and Theory
Technique and theory of typeface design
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Even 1200-dpi printer not good enough for testing spacing & kerning at text size. What do you do?
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Igor Freiberger
March 20
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Type Business
The business side of type design and font licensing.
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Monotype partners with Canva
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Ray Larabie
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Type Design Critiques
Honest and constructive feedback from other professionals. For release announcements, use the
Type Releases category
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Variable Font for my Bachelor Thesis, all feedback welcome
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Sander Pedersen
March 25
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Type Design Software
Discussions specific to FontLab, Glyphs, AFDKO, Superpolator, Prepolator, Robofab, TTX, FontTools, UFOStretch, DTL Software, MS-Volt, Fontforge, etc.
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A new graphical editor for TrueType hints
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Peter Baker
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Punchcutting
Discussion specific to making metal type
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Drawing the movement: Nelly Gable's book on punchcutting
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LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland
September 2019
Lettering and Calligraphy
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Technique and Theory
Technique and theory of lettering and calligraphy
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Where do you put the circumflex in /hcircumflex, and caron in /kcaron?
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Cristóbal Henestrosa
March 23
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Lettering Critiques
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Font Feedback
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Eryk Kosinski
March 19
Typography
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History of Typography
Discuss the history of typography here.
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Handwriting ? On An Old German Wool Soft Felt Hat Sweatband
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Hutmann
March 21
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Education
The category for those who teach design.
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‘Grand Cru Classés’ sprouting from Antwerp soil
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LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland
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Resources
The category for typographic and educational resources.
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Inappropriate font use image hunt
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Mark Simonson
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Announcements
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Events
Announce talks, conferences, workshops, weekends, competitions, etc. here.
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“Drawn to Letters: a Dutch approach”—workshop with Elmo van Slingerland
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Phan
November 2022
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Job Postings
Post permanent or freelance/temporary job postings for type and lettering here.
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Hiring Typeface Designer for 3-6 week contract
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Gaspar Muñoz
February 27
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Type Releases
Announce new type releases here. Please do not copy/paste your marketing copy.
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Unreleased typeface needed!!
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rosea14
March 20
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Miscellaneous News
Any news that doesn’t fit in other Announcements categories. Software announcements go in the software category.
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Affinity 2.0
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Claudio Piccinini
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About TypeDrawers
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TypeDrawers Announcements
Official news about TypeDrawers.com
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Help Fund The Next Stage of TypeDrawers - Updated for 2023
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Wei Huang
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Suggestions and Bug Reports
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TypeDrawers podcast?
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Mark Simonson
December 2022
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