Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• Unicode: where is the Drachma sign?

  271 views 9 comments 2 points Most recent by John Savard January 26
• Florin sign (ƒ)

  6.2K views 68 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini January 25
• Art deco proportions for Þ Ł Ð

  246 views 4 comments 1 point Most recent by K Pease January 22
• Language-specific considerations/best practices

  601 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by jeremy tribby January 19
• Transparency, gradients

  218 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Pircher January 17
• My text face wish list

  4.3K views 106 comments 21 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini January 17
• Empirical Statistics of Font/Glyph Metrics

  272 views 6 comments 1 point Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer January 10
• exploring variable fonts - seeking tipps for nodes placing/outline design

  256 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson December 2022
• Create one glyph and extrapolate its design to create others?

  452 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by jeremy tribby December 2022
• Do you always start over a new font from scratch?

  1K views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by Craig Eliason December 2022
• Reasonableness of idea 'L apostrophe → Lcaron' ligature

  485 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Alex Visi December 2022
• Elongation of Hebrew letters at the end of the row

  1.5K views 47 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev December 2022
• Thickness preference for crossbars of high contrast typeface

  131 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Adam Ladd December 2022
• TT hinting: thick and thin horizontal stems in a serif design

  148 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Mike Duggan November 2022
• Inconsistent overshoots?

  420 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Jasper de Waard November 2022
• No art training; where to start?

  647 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Dave Crossland November 2022
• [OTVar] Dependent axes?

  586 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney November 2022
• Italic for ALL glyphs?

  440 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Christopher Slye November 2022
• Small Capital Figures?

  474 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson November 2022
• 円 design standards

  294 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) November 2022
• How to determine a perfect/test proofing word ?

  823 views 24 comments 7 points Most recent by Hugo Jourdan October 2022
• Terms and Definitions - a Cheat Sheet - Help/Insight

  457 views 30 comments 1 point Most recent by Nick Shinn October 2022
• Drawing Cyrillic т, ш, and ц With Thick Horizontal Strokes

  228 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson October 2022
• When did non-traditional cedillas appear?

  484 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn October 2022
• Necessary swash cap accents

  235 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by James Puckett October 2022
• How Glyph Level PS Hints actually work?

  499 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Igor Petrovic October 2022
• Text Rendering between InDesign and Illustrator

  638 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Igor Petrovic October 2022
• Kerning pairs you can’t do without

  576 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini September 2022
• font creation framework

  848 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by FettleFoundry September 2022
• Please list your favorite foreign looking Latin fonts

  1.3K views 38 comments 1 point Most recent by Russell McGorman September 2022