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.Technique and theory of typeface design
1.1K discussions
15K comments
Most recent: 7 Optical Illusions in Type Design — Atricle by Igor Petrovic
March 22
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Expand for more options.The business side of type design and font licensing.
630 discussions
10.8K comments
Most recent: Who are the rising stars of the type world? by Moritz Kleinsorge
March 22
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Expand for more options.Honest and constructive feedback from other professionals. For release announcements, use the Type Releases category.
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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.
548 discussions
7.4K comments
Most recent: How to add a new glyph to a font with FontTools? by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland
March 22
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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.
307 discussions
3.4K comments
Most recent: Panchanan - A project for digitalisation of first Bengali typeface created by Panchanan Karmakar by John Savard
March 12
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Expand for more options.The category for those who teach design.
116 discussions
1.4K comments
Most recent: ‘Grand Cru Classés’ sprouting from Antwerp soil by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland
March 16
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Announcements
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Expand for more options.Announce talks, conferences, workshops, weekends, competitions, etc. here.
82 discussions
425 comments
Most recent: Enterprise Sales + other font production & design courses at ILT Academy by Nadine Chahine
March 10
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Expand for more options.Post permanent or freelance/temporary job postings for type and lettering here.
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Expand for more options.Announce new type releases here. Please do not copy/paste your marketing copy.
154 discussions
249 comments
Most recent: ON a Contemporary Typeface for Arabic Scripts! by Amir Mesbahi
March 17
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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.
166 discussions
1.7K comments
Most recent: Digital Greek Typography is Broken by Denis Moyogo Jacquerye
March 7
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About TypeDrawers
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117 discussions
1.3K comments
Most recent: notdef in Oculi text font makes it a bad choice by Kent Lew
January 14
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