Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• Even 1200-dpi printer not good enough for testing spacing & kerning at text size. What do you do?

  512 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Igor Freiberger March 20
• Converting Obscure Font Format into TTF

  578 views 15 comments 1 point Most recent by thecogdesigns March 15
• Leaving out the standard ligatures – problems?

  1.3K views 41 comments 1 point Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 10
• u+00af and u+02c9

  935 views 30 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson March 10
• Icons to font file conversion

  203 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Roel Nieskens March 1
• Grid Test of Letters

  463 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard February 27
• Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?

  386 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Kris Sowersby February 17
• Monospace Font Spacing

  398 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Craig Eliason February 15
• Unicode: where is the Drachma sign?

  372 views 10 comments 2 points Most recent by Peter Constable January 30
• Call-out for multi-lingual type designers!

  173 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney January 29
• Florin sign (ƒ)

  6.5K views 68 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini January 25
• Art deco proportions for Þ Ł Ð

  272 views 4 comments 1 point Most recent by K Pease January 22
• Language-specific considerations/best practices

  626 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by jeremy tribby January 19
• Transparency, gradients

  228 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Pircher January 17
• My text face wish list

  4.4K views 106 comments 21 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini January 17
• Empirical Statistics of Font/Glyph Metrics

  287 views 6 comments 1 point Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer January 10
• exploring variable fonts - seeking tipps for nodes placing/outline design

  269 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson December 2022
• Create one glyph and extrapolate its design to create others?

  476 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by jeremy tribby December 2022
• Do you always start over a new font from scratch?

  1.1K views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by Craig Eliason December 2022
• Reasonableness of idea 'L apostrophe → Lcaron' ligature

  498 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Alex Visi December 2022
• Elongation of Hebrew letters at the end of the row

  1.6K views 47 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev December 2022
• Thickness preference for crossbars of high contrast typeface

  139 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Adam Ladd December 2022
• TT hinting: thick and thin horizontal stems in a serif design

  159 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Mike Duggan November 2022
• Inconsistent overshoots?

  432 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Jasper de Waard November 2022
• No art training; where to start?

  670 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Dave Crossland November 2022
• [OTVar] Dependent axes?

  594 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney November 2022
• Italic for ALL glyphs?

  455 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Christopher Slye November 2022
• Small Capital Figures?

  494 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson November 2022
• 円 design standards

  296 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) November 2022
• How to determine a perfect/test proofing word ?

  857 views 24 comments 7 points Most recent by Hugo Jourdan October 2022