Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• Favorite typefaces to study or reference — or consider a model/guide?

  221 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Igor Freiberger April 25
• What are some good typefaces you like to reference and serve as a general guide?

  436 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Mikhail Vasilev April 19
• Regarding the new Saudi riyal currency symbol

  1.5K views 14 comments 12 points Most recent by Andreas Stötzner April 19
• New UAE Dirham Currency Symbol

  336 views 13 comments 1 point Most recent by Thomas Phinney April 18
• What is the preferred method of keeping kerning data in UFO format ?

  Answered ✓ 174 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Kent Lew April 18
• Italic punctuation in a font with both right slanted Latin and left slanted Hebrew/Arabic

  145 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Khaled Hosny April 17
• When designing italics should a curve's side handles be 90º or slanted to the italic angle?

  Answered 485 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by SCarewe April 6
• 7 Optical Illusions in Type Design — Atricle

  510 views 5 comments 5 points Most recent by Igor Petrovic March 22
• Florin vs Latin small letter F with Hook U+0192

  579 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard March 15
• When in the type design process do you start drawing different weights and styles?

  Answered 382 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 11
• How much creative freedom in drawing currency symbols

  665 views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Peter Constable March 8
• Reverse Italic, Backslanted, Cilati

  454 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Hardwig February 26
• Punctuation education

  390 views 12 comments 4 points Most recent by John Hudson February 16
• Should I include small caps etc. in an authentic italic font revival?

  627 views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn February 11
• How to make final form of Indic conjunct

  93 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by John Hudson February 9
• I ran across this entertaining video on why English should start using more accents

  495 views 12 comments 5 points Most recent by Kent Lew February 9
• How does decimal sidebearing affect stem width after rounding?

  124 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Michael Rafailyk February 7
• Introducing my Automatic Kerning and Automatic Slanted Curve Correction Services

  436 views 3 comments 10 points Most recent by John Hudson February 5
• The I ogonek in sans-serif monospaced typefaces

  343 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Melvian February 3
• Accented letters in font names

  552 views 20 comments 0 points Most recent by Yves Michel February 1
• Regular vs Book

  4.1K views 36 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn January 20
• What could be an effective strategy for handling frac/tions in OpenType fonts?

  697 views 30 comments 0 points Most recent by Khaled Hosny January 14
• moving nodes along the contours

  276 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson January 13
• IPA: Best practice?

  3.6K views 94 comments 0 points Most recent by Denis Moyogo Jacquerye January 12
• Optimal Positioning and Sizing for Drop Caps

  255 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn January 6
• Looking for critiques!

  498 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Alanna Munro December 2024
• Diacritics size on capital vs Lowercase in Vietnamese

  417 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Johannes Neumeier December 2024
• All caps descender setting

  215 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Ray Larabie December 2024
• Condensed Light vs. Light Condensed

  458 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson November 2024
• How to design Serbian Cyrillic PART 2 — True Italics

  372 views 7 comments 7 points Most recent by Igor Petrovic November 2024