Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• Naming, grouping conventions for large family

  369 views 20 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney July 18
• Modifier Letter Rhotic Hook

  945 views 71 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney July 14
• 1954 proposal to rid figures of curves

  318 views 7 comments 5 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) July 14
• Ligatures for Cyrillic

  508 views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by Olexa Volochay June 30
• Electra Oblique

  165 views 4 comments 3 points Most recent by Kent Lew June 16
• Question about correct contours

  585 views 31 comments 0 points Most recent by Aleme Tadesse June 14
• Numbers in a font name ?

  194 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by ivan louette June 13
• Tcomma and Tcedilla

  1.7K views 22 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev June 9
• Overlap in variable fonts

  256 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian June 7
• List of Deprecated Legacy Characters

  118 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard June 4
• Kerning of lowercase/Uppercase pairs

  447 views 28 comments 0 points Most recent by Frode Helland May 30
• Differences between number sets

  108 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by ValKalinic May 29
• What do you call this part of an /r?

  503 views 35 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney May 25
• Too much tracking in Google Material Design?

  312 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian May 23
• Foundry/Font library vs collection

  152 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Sami Artur Mandelbaum May 23
• Weird font choice

  514 views 22 comments 2 points Most recent by Ray Larabie May 19
• Numerals in font family names

  737 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini May 14
• Reason not to simplify caretSlopeRise and caretSlopeRun ratio for Italic? Rise 1000, Run (Even #)

  146 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney May 11
• I know how to start. But I don't know when to finish.

  668 views 23 comments 2 points Most recent by Craig Eliason May 10
• Width proportions across weights

  139 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by AbrahamLee May 3
• Helvetica Now inconsistent terminal/finial form, e and c

  2K views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian May 1
• Ultra-compressed flat-siders

  616 views 19 comments 3 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini April 29
• Books About Type Design and Founding in the United States of America

  535 views 12 comments 5 points Most recent by Dan Reynolds April 28
• Vertical Metrics or Scaling within the same UPM and Printed Appearance

  106 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Georg Seifert April 28
• Rounding error questions

  149 views 9 comments 1 point Most recent by Thomas Phinney April 27
• A question about the Greek Tonos

  187 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn April 20
• De Casteljau

  1.2K views 9 comments 6 points Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland April 18
• Cross platform naming convention

  276 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson April 16
• What are these coloured lines called, and what is their purpose?

  299 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Sujan Sundareswaran April 9
• Outlining fonts in a whole InDesign document upon generation

  185 views 1 comment 2 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 30