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.
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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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
15.2K comments
Most recent: Most common approach to round a non-integer coordinate for Italic Angle? by Michael Rafailyk
June 20
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Expand for more options.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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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.
120 discussions
1.4K comments
Most recent: Design of the Cyrillic letter Qa /Ԛ /ԛ by Tural Alisoy
May 29
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Expand for more options.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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Expand for more options.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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Expand for more options.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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Expand for more options.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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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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Expand for more options.
118 discussions
1.3K comments
Most recent: Suggestions: Color Fonts coming out as Black Squares? by John Hudson
June 7
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