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: A new Art Deco, and the hunt for Broadway Greek/Cyrillic by Tofu Type Foundry October 12
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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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Technique and theory of typeface design
1.1K discussions 15.4K comments Most recent: Why ascender can't use interline gap, but diacritics can? by Jacob Casal 2:43AM
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The business side of type design and font licensing.
654 discussions 11K comments Most recent: Does anyone here have experience with licensing for SharePoint? by Max Phillips 8:48AM
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Discussion specific to font technology.
849 discussions 9.1K comments Most recent: Third-party fonts not showing up in Word and PowerPoint by Kasper Pyndt October 16
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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: hebrew type design workshops? by DJSilverbird35 October 10
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History of typefaces and typography
323 discussions 3.5K comments Most recent: Examples of Greek capital ου ligature wanted by Adam Jagosz October 15
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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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33 discussions 357 comments Most recent: What i made this Lettering on my pencil by DJSilverbird35 October 15
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Announcements
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Announce talks, conferences, workshops, weekends, competitions, etc. here.
91 discussions 464 comments Most recent: Workshop on Oct 22: Coding for Glyphs with ChatGPT & Co by Kasper Pyndt October 16
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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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Official news about TypeDrawers.com
54 discussions 1.3K comments Most recent: Help Typedrawers find a new home by James Hultquist-Todd October 10
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120 discussions 1.3K comments Most recent: typedrawers.com offline every now and then? by michele casanova September 27
Popular Tags
- opentype 194
- type design 132
- critique 119
- font design 105
- fontlab 98
- design 87
- 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