Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• Need name suggestion for the axis controlling apex in variable font

  85 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by K Pease 12:31PM
• Latinized Greek

  2K views 99 comments 1 point Most recent by Andreas Stötzner 8:48AM
• Why are A and E crossbars so rarely aligned?

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

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

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

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

  386 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
• Cedilla design options - Verdana style

  416 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini December 2019
• Case-sensitive baseline quote marks?

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

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

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

  151 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Jim Parrillo November 2019
• A Meditation on Arno

  282 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson November 2019
• List of glyphs that remain upright in italics

  460 views 21 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard November 2019
• Proofreaders needed for a tutorial on extending a Latin set

  575 views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Frode Helland October 2019
• Overlap in variable fonts

  539 views 20 comments 0 points Most recent by Micah Hahn October 2019
• Notdef: generic or style-specific?

  619 views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by David Kerkhoff October 2019
• Coding: Deactivating ligatures in the superscript feature

  215 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Erwin Denissen October 2019
• Book, Regular, Medium

  1.1K views 73 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini October 2019
• Pointed teardrop terminal?

  174 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by ivan louette October 2019
• Glyphs extensions for fonts containing basic western set

  431 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Dave Crossland October 2019
• Calibrating weights across variable widths

  182 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Jacques Le Bailly October 2019
• How many glyphs sequence can an OpenType lookup/feature include?

  345 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Yeshurun Kubi September 2019
• An oddity with the replacements via 'locl'

  179 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by mauro sacchetto August 2019
• "... a variable font empirically shown to significantly improve reading-proficiency"

  573 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Chris Lozos August 2019
• En dash = width of n?

  1.8K views 42 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard August 2019
• En/Em dash length for condensed style font

  310 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Jani Paavola August 2019
• Working with multiple masters

  361 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney August 2019
• Question: Why are foot serifs cupped?

  707 views 24 comments 1 point Most recent by Hrant H. Papazian August 2019