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Technique and theory of typeface design
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Even 1200-dpi printer not good enough for testing spacing & kerning at text size. What do you do?
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Converting Obscure Font Format into TTF
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Leaving out the standard ligatures – problems?
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u+00af and u+02c9
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Icons to font file conversion
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Grid Test of Letters
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Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?
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Monospace Font Spacing
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Unicode: where is the Drachma sign?
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Call-out for multi-lingual type designers!
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My text face wish list
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Empirical Statistics of Font/Glyph Metrics
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exploring variable fonts - seeking tipps for nodes placing/outline design
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Do you always start over a new font from scratch?
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Reasonableness of idea 'L apostrophe → Lcaron' ligature
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Elongation of Hebrew letters at the end of the row
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Thickness preference for crossbars of high contrast typeface
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Inconsistent overshoots?
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No art training; where to start?
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[OTVar] Dependent axes?
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Italic for ALL glyphs?
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Small Capital Figures?
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円 design standards
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How to determine a perfect/test proofing word ?
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