Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• A how-to guide to TrueType hinting variable fonts, with Visual TrueType

  81 views 0 comments 3 points Started by Mike Duggan October 21
• Japanese Characters - Legibility, Focus Points

  50 views 0 comments 0 points Started by EmilyB October 21
• Kerning Figures to Letters

  461 views 18 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson October 19
• Small Caps Practice

  552 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Michael Rafailyk October 17
• Unicase germandbls

  309 views 12 comments 2 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) October 16
• Best practices for .null and .notdef?

  138 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by John Hudson October 1
• Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar

  1.6K views 43 comments 1 point Most recent by Andreas Stötzner October 1
• Different "story" structures in small sizes: a poll

  402 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer September 29
• Will I run into any issues if I don't include all the glyphs from a codepage (i.e skipping ∏∑√∂)?

  471 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Peter Constable September 25
• Non-English languages that use the 26 letters used in English

  305 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Laurensius Adi September 21
• Anatomy of Typography - SHOULDER

  231 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard September 17
• manat and new shekel height?

  216 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by jeremy tribby September 17
• Can MS Word files be converted from ASCII fonts to Unicode fonts?

  115 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Cognate September 14
• How do I start working on italics?

  886 views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by jeremy tribby September 6
• Vertical metrics strategy for optical sizes

  267 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn September 1
• Font with extremely tall ascenders/descenders in multiline text in Adobe applications

  302 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by André G. Isaak September 1
• Can 'calts' and positional forms have stylistic sets?

  95 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Leon Coward August 22
• Final/intial features

  1K views 15 comments 2 points Most recent by Simon Cozens August 6
• For those who have worked with icon fonts before: overshoots or no overshoots?

  142 views 3 comments 1 point Most recent by Thomas Phinney August 3
• Industrial typefaces

  630 views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Russell McGorman July 26
• Strategies for drawing a variable sans with weight, width, and preferably slant axes

  266 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Ori Ben-Dor July 15
• Looking for references of very heavy serifs with diagonal stress

  980 views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Ori Ben-Dor July 11
• zero-length Bézier control point on a (PostScript) curve: how bad is it?

  153 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney July 6
• How long does it takes for you to finish a typeface?

  992 views 38 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Curtis July 4
• Final production steps

  472 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn July 2
• OT: error on compiling (FL5)

  171 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by Mike Duggan June 30
• My text face wish list

  1.9K views 84 comments 20 points Most recent by Denis Moyogo Jacquerye June 27
• Macintosh OS 11 Big Sur: system typeface desaster and related issues

  1.3K views 34 comments 0 points Most recent by Eris Alar June 26
• Brain Sees Words As Pictures

  3.1K views 53 comments 4 points Most recent by Russell McGorman June 23
• brecveinvertedcomb

  121 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Jani Paavola June 23