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.
485 discussions 9.9K comments Most recent: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment by Simon Cozens 6:27AM
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Discussions specific to FontLab, Glyphs, AFDKO, Superpolator, Prepolator, Robofab, TTX, FontTools, UFOStretch, DTL Software, MS-Volt, Fontforge, etc.
560 discussions 7.6K comments Most recent: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future? by Simon Cozens October 2
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The business side of type design and font licensing.
653 discussions 11K comments Most recent: Two articles about Monotype’s busines travails and HR practices by Ray Larabie 12:58AM
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Discussion specific to font technology.
848 discussions 9.1K comments Most recent: How "beta" is OTVar font format? by Russell McGorman October 9
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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.
119 discussions 1.4K comments Most recent: New: Origin of Type Frameworks (OTF) Course by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland September 27
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History of typefaces and typography
323 discussions 3.5K comments Most recent: Examples of Greek capital ου ligature wanted by Christian Thalmann October 9
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The category for typographic and educational resources.
77 discussions 812 comments Most recent: An Experience with What The Font by John Savard September 6
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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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Announce talks, conferences, workshops, weekends, competitions, etc. here.
90 discussions 461 comments Most recent: Fonts & AI conference: program is announced + registration is open by Nadine Chahine October 9
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Post permanent or freelance/temporary job postings for type and lettering here.
114 discussions 653 comments Most recent: Google Fonts Software Engineer (Bay Area/NYC location only) by Nick Shinn October 4
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Announce new type releases here. Please do not copy/paste your marketing copy.
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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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120 discussions 1.3K comments Most recent: typedrawers.com offline every now and then? by michele casanova September 27
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- OTVar 71
- licensing 70
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- unicode 68
- webfonts 67
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- education 62
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- help 55
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- sans-serif 51
- diacritics 50