Font Technology

Discussion List

• Who to contact about creating new characters in a font

  284 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Yves Michel January 25
• Tocharian A Font and Application

  455 views 21 comments 0 points Most recent by Charles January 25
• US State Deptment switching from Times New Roman to Calibri for all official documents

  595 views 17 comments 2 points Most recent by Mark Simonson January 25
• Problems of overshoot (?)

  285 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by mauro sacchetto January 21
• Why don't we hear about more use of variable fonts on the Web?

  4.8K views 117 comments 0 points Most recent by John Butler January 18
• Kern pair dump script

  178 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by PabloImpallari January 7
• FontBakery checking

  394 views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Hin-Tak Leung January 7
• On vertical metrics (in the context of a biscript, Tamil and Latin font)

  1.2K views 30 comments 3 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer January 4
• Problem Using Stylistic Sets

  222 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Ashfaq Niazi January 3
• How to fix jagged diagonal lines?

  342 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson December 2022
• adding new encoding slot in fontforge not working

  112 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Linus Romer December 2022
• Artificial Intelligence generated letters

  3.2K views 33 comments 6 points Most recent by Nick Shinn December 2022
• Testing Variable Font

  341 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by k.l. December 2022
• Manual hinting in FontForge

  147 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Mike Duggan December 2022
• What is 'function 6 in FPGM' in FontForge?

  114 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Hin-Tak Leung December 2022
• Hinting in FontForge

  143 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Aaron Bell December 2022
• Python library for direct Bezier manipulation

  2K views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by c.g. December 2022
• Convert OpenType to Fonts for AFP

  115 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Martin Wenzel November 2022
• Interesting kerning behavior in macOS applications

  348 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn November 2022
• Interpolation - Smooth to Sharp Transition

  298 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by Vít Šmejkal November 2022
• Need help with hinting in Microsoft Visual TrueType

  240 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Mike Duggan November 2022
• Variable Font in Flab VI Problems

  669 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Michael Rafailyk November 2022
• Should fonts custom-made "for UI and UX" be optimized for web?

  377 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasily Draigo November 2022
• Web sites/e-readers that match optical size to pixel size automatically

  522 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney October 2022
• Fonttools "Level 4" variable font instancing opens up new retail option

  216 views 0 comments 7 points Started by Dave Crossland October 2022
• A hypothetical generative tool utilizing nested multiple masters.

  354 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Jeremy Dooley October 2022
• FontLab 7 - Different kerning classes in masters

  175 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Igor Petrovic October 2022
• Tagalog as a script descriptor?

  130 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by James Montalbano October 2022
• Dreaming of a new feature syntax

  1.2K views 35 comments 5 points Most recent by Simon Cozens October 2022
• Fontmake 3.4.0 error message

  135 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Kristian Möller October 2022