Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• How to best give access to special characters in a font

  864 views 51 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn April 6
• En dash = width of n?

  2.3K views 54 comments 0 points Most recent by ClintGoss March 30
• TT points at extrema: off-curve OK?

  241 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 26
• Strategies for inverted exclamation and question marks

  376 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn March 19
• Discretionary kerning

  212 views 9 comments 2 points Most recent by Craig Eliason March 17
• Two Discretionary Ligatures for the Same Letter Combo

  154 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 17
• Variants of the decimal point

  254 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson March 11
• Examples of Serif Styles?

  255 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 6
• Latinized Greek

  2.5K views 107 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard March 3
• modern text font without kerning or with just a few kerning pairs

  512 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn March 2
• Precomposed fractions — waste of time and space?

  1.1K views 62 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson February 28
• Cedilla design options - Verdana style

  538 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Piotr Ciesielski February 26
• Z and 7 with a stroke

  489 views 22 comments 0 points Most recent by Jens Kutilek February 24
• Guides for designing Cyrillic letters Њ, Љ, Ћ, and Ђ

  586 views 24 comments 15 points Most recent by Igor Petrovic February 13
• OpenType GPOS Lookups for Urdu

  175 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson February 10
• Stylistic Sets — have to be consecutive?

  132 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson February 4
• Layered fonts: layer suffix in family name or style name?

  116 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Ray Larabie February 4
• A little curiosity about COMBINIG GRAPHEME JOINER

  114 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer February 2
• Rounded Cyrillic M

  157 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Viktor Rubenko January 28
• Need name suggestion for the axis controlling apex in variable font

  182 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Muhammad Ariq Syauqi January 27
• Why are A and E crossbars so rarely aligned?

  297 views 5 comments -1 point Most recent by Vasil Stanev January 21
• Autohint better than my TTF Hinting–What can I improve?

  142 views 2 comments 2 points Most recent by Lukas Horn January 16
• principles for designing Greek "italics" (aka slanted Greek)

  200 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Christian Thalmann January 13
• Do you sort your glyphs?

  501 views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland January 10
• Interminable neon

  395 views 10 comments 3 points Most recent by Mark Simonson January 8
• The design process

  1.7K views 59 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn December 2019
• Case-sensitive baseline quote marks?

  107 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Adam Ladd November 2019
• Anchor positioning habits

  655 views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by Johannes Neumeier November 2019
• Material Icons Bezier Paths

  219 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by André G. Isaak November 2019
• Stylistic sets in ITC Avant Garde

  169 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Jim Parrillo November 2019