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.
485 discussions
9.9K comments
Most recent: AlphabetMagic. My first AI experiment by Simon Cozens
6:27AM
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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.
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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Expand for more options.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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Expand for more options.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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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
September 27
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Expand for more options.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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Expand for more options.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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Expand for more options.
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.
90 discussions
461 comments
Most recent: Fonts & AI conference: program is announced + registration is open by Nadine Chahine
October 9
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Expand for more options.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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Expand for more options.Announce new type releases here. Please do not copy/paste your marketing copy.
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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 michele casanova
September 27
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- opentype 194
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- glyphs 81
- typeface 77
- font software 76
- type critique 71
- kerning 71
- OTVar 71
- licensing 70
- history 70
- unicode 68
- webfonts 67
- VariableFonts 67
- display 63
- education 62
- serif 62
- business 60
- help 55
- variable fonts 53
- sans-serif 51
- diacritics 50