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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Expand for more options.Honest and constructive feedback from other professionals. For release announcements, use the Type Releases category.
480 discussions
9.9K comments
Most recent: A beginner’s attempt in a text face based on Fell type by Horace Fung
9:58AM
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Expand for more options.Discussions specific to FontLab, Glyphs, AFDKO, Superpolator, Prepolator, Robofab, TTX, FontTools, UFOStretch, DTL Software, MS-Volt, Fontforge, etc.
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Expand for more options.Technique and theory of typeface design
1.1K discussions
15.3K comments
Most recent: Seeking newby advice for setting up kerning classes by jeremy tribby
August 17
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Expand for more options.Discussion specific to font technology.
837 discussions
9.1K comments
Most recent: W3C Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) is now a candidate recommendation by Dave Crossland
5:03PM
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Expand for more options.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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Expand for more options.The category for those who teach design.
119 discussions
1.4K comments
Most recent: New: Origin of Type Frameworks (OTF) Course by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland
August 4
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Expand for more options.History of typefaces and typography
319 discussions
3.5K comments
Most recent: History of medial decoration? by Scott-Martin Kosofsky
August 18
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Expand for more options.The category for typographic and educational resources.
75 discussions
809 comments
Most recent: Can I turn a custom font into menu-board letters? by Marc Oxborrow
July 21
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Lettering and Calligraphy
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31 discussions
357 comments
Most recent: Handwriting of Rabindranath Tagore - a calligraphic legacy by mitradranirban
August 8
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Announcements
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Expand for more options.Announce talks, conferences, workshops, weekends, competitions, etc. here.
88 discussions
451 comments
Most recent: Announcing the first Fonts and AI conference by Nadine Chahine
August 16
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Expand for more options.Post permanent or freelance/temporary job postings for type and lettering here.
112 discussions
648 comments
Most recent: Google Fonts font development project management opportunity by Dave Crossland
August 11
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Expand for more options.Announce new type releases here. Please do not copy/paste your marketing copy.
168 discussions
260 comments
Most recent: Collins music typeface for “The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition” songbook by Jeff Kellem
July 24
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Expand for more options.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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120 discussions
1.3K comments
Most recent: typedrawers.com offline every now and then? by Andreas Stötzner
9:01AM
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