Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• Can the custom fonts be installed into Iphone/Ipad???

  354 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by WAY KYI June 8
• Regular vs Book

  1.2K views 27 comments 0 points Most recent by Dave Crossland June 7
• Typewriter typeface vs monospace typeface

  2.6K views 40 comments 2 points Most recent by John Savard June 1
• Half brackets from Supplemental Punctuation block. Is there a standard for them?

  253 views 3 comments 1 point Most recent by Denis Moyogo Jacquerye May 29
• Most relevant kerning pairs for CYR/GRK

  255 views 1 comment 3 points Most recent by Stefan Peev May 25
• With more appearances of "AI" in text, I wonder about /I with crossbars

  298 views 5 comments 2 points Most recent by Ray Larabie May 5
• How to calculate other stem widths of masters from Regular weight

  373 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Luis Castellon Quesada May 3
• how to construct large math operators

  327 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Simon Cozens May 1
• Design differences between text font and math font

  592 views 11 comments 2 points Most recent by John Savard April 24
• Where do I put the extra characters?

  320 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson April 20
• Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?

  557 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by PabloImpallari April 16
• Decision for the glyphs to represent binary numbers

  108 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Mikhail Vasilev April 15
• Periodcentered

  2.2K views 30 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini April 3
• [OTVar] Dependent axes?

  697 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by Laurence Penney March 31
• Even 1200-dpi printer not good enough for testing spacing & kerning at text size. What do you do?

  552 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Igor Freiberger March 20
• Converting Obscure Font Format into TTF

  600 views 15 comments 1 point Most recent by thecogdesigns March 15
• Leaving out the standard ligatures – problems?

  1.3K views 41 comments 1 point Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 10
• u+00af and u+02c9

  965 views 30 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson March 10
• Icons to font file conversion

  213 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Roel Nieskens March 1
• Grid Test of Letters

  484 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard February 27
• Monospace Font Spacing

  463 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Craig Eliason February 15
• Unicode: where is the Drachma sign?

  386 views 10 comments 2 points Most recent by Peter Constable January 30
• Call-out for multi-lingual type designers!

  175 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney January 29
• Florin sign (ƒ)

  6.8K views 68 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini January 25
• Art deco proportions for Þ Ł Ð

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

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

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

  4.6K views 106 comments 21 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini January 17
• Empirical Statistics of Font/Glyph Metrics

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

  277 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson December 2022