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- 3.4K All Categories
- 11 Introductions
- 2.7K Typeface Design
- 475 Font Technology
- 850 Technique and Theory
- 366 Type Business
- 336 Type Design Critiques
- 440 Type Design Software
- 29 Punchcutting
- 75 Lettering and Calligraphy
- 45 Technique and Theory
- 30 Lettering Critiques
- 287 Typography
- 199 History of Typography
- 81 Education
- 7 Resources
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- 78 Job Postings
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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.Discussion specific to font technology.
475 discussions
5.1K comments
Most recent: Platform and platform encoding identifiers: Getting it straight by Simon Cozens
11:06AM
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Expand for more options.The business side of type design and font licensing.
366 discussions
6.6K comments
Most recent: Under what conditions can I modify a font for commercial use? by karstenluecke
9:08AM
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Expand for more options.Honest and constructive feedback from other professionals. For release announcements, use the Type Releases category.
336 discussions
6.9K comments
Most recent: Finished the first draft of my first ever font. Require critique by kartiknair
10:11AM
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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.
440 discussions
5.9K comments
Most recent: A (new?) algorithm to make two G¹–continuous cubic Bézier curves G³–continuous by Piotr Grochowski
July 3
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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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Lettering and Calligraphy
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Typography
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Expand for more options.Discuss the history of typography here.
199 discussions
2.2K comments
Most recent: Seeking specimens/examples for "Künstlerschrift Wodan", Stempel & Co. 1902/1906 by Fernando Mello
1:08PM
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Expand for more options.The category for those who teach design.
81 discussions
961 comments
Most recent: Latin without Cross Sign and Arabic Without Dots by AzizMostafa
July 2
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Expand for more options.The category for typographic and educational resources.
7 discussions
36 comments
Most recent: Improved Selectric Composer Catalog Available by Mark Simonson
July 7
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Announcements
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Expand for more options.Announce talks, conferences, workshops, weekends, competitions, etc. here.
60 discussions
335 comments
Most recent: Alphabetica 2019 — Den Haag, Saturday November 23 by Akiem Helmling
December 2019
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Expand for more options.Post permanent or freelance/temporary job postings for type and lettering here.
78 discussions
346 comments
Most recent: New Arabic font system by Helmut Wollmersdorfer
February 13
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Expand for more options.Announce new type releases here. Please do not copy/paste your marketing copy.
111 discussions
201 comments
Most recent: Caucasian Albanic – cast into type for the very first time by John Savard
July 7
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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