Technique and Theory

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• Making a Devanagari rupee sign work in Indesign with Opentype

  568 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson November 29
• Naming the 3s

  306 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson November 29
• Does anybody know how to find the book “Scripts”

  91 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by John Savard November 17
• Why are italics lighter than their upright counterparts?

  885 views 20 comments 3 points Most recent by Russell McGorman November 12
• Uppercase dotted I and J in French football jerseys

  277 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Russell McGorman November 8
• What non-English ligatures are there?

  1.3K views 47 comments 1 point Most recent by Thomas Phinney November 6
• Kerning Figures to Letters

  565 views 19 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard October 30
• A how-to guide to TrueType hinting variable fonts, with Visual TrueType

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

  90 views 0 comments 0 points Started by EmilyB October 21
• Small Caps Practice

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

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

  151 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

  405 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 ∏∑√∂)?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  319 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?

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

  637 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

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

  995 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?

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

  1K views 38 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Curtis July 4