Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• How would you redo Unicode?

  44 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard 2:01AM
• Etiquette on using a historic source that's already been used

  464 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Michael Wallner May 4
• Regarding the new Saudi riyal currency symbol

  1.7K views 19 comments 12 points Most recent by Peter Constable May 2
• Favorite typefaces to study or reference — or consider a model/guide?

  553 views 17 comments 1 point Most recent by Mikhail Vasilev April 28
• What are some good typefaces you like to reference and serve as a general guide?

  459 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Mikhail Vasilev April 19
• New UAE Dirham Currency Symbol

  405 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 ✓ 188 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

  156 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 498 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by SCarewe April 6
• 7 Optical Illusions in Type Design — Atricle

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

  585 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 387 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 11
• How much creative freedom in drawing currency symbols

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

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

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

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

  94 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

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

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

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

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

  555 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?

  700 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

  260 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

  217 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Ray Larabie December 2024