Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• Non-English languages that use the 26 letters used in English

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

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• manat and new shekel height?

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

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

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

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

  292 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by André G. Isaak September 1
• Can 'calts' and positional forms have stylistic sets?

  97 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Leon Coward August 22
• Will I run into any issues if I don't include all the glyphs from a codepage (i.e skipping ∏∑√∂)?

  343 views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Erwin Denissen August 7
• Final/intial features

  992 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?

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

  622 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

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

  976 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?

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

  987 views 38 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Curtis July 4
• Final production steps

  466 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn July 2
• OT: error on compiling (FL5)

  174 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by Mike Duggan June 30
• My text face wish list

  1.9K views 84 comments 19 points Most recent by Denis Moyogo Jacquerye June 27
• Macintosh OS 11 Big Sur: system typeface desaster and related issues

  1.1K views 34 comments 0 points Most recent by Eris Alar June 26
• Brain Sees Words As Pictures

  3.1K views 53 comments 4 points Most recent by Russell McGorman June 23
• brecveinvertedcomb

  122 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Jani Paavola June 23
• Different "story" structures in small sizes: a poll

  163 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Matthijs Herzberg June 21
• Searching for best fonts with this kind of kink

  328 views 11 comments 1 point Most recent by AbiRasheed June 18
• Why the link on the first zero in %?

  420 views 27 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard June 15
• Accents part of the 2048/1000 limit?

  776 views 20 comments 1 point Most recent by Florian Pircher June 8
• Which is the most effective naming convention for optical sizes?

  734 views 55 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard June 6
• What's your standard glyph set/coverage?

  642 views 28 comments 0 points Most recent by Dave Crossland June 1
• Using B-splines to draw italics

  298 views 6 comments 1 point Most recent by ivan louette May 29
• Letter-fitting and spacing research

  403 views 20 comments 1 point Most recent by John Hudson May 26