Technique and Theory

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• Mark to Base on Ligatured glyphs

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• Lithuanian I/i with ogonek in serif typeface

  964 views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev June 23
• Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?

  441 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Raphaël Ronot June 8
• What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?

  1.1K views 21 comments 0 points Most recent by Niteesh Yadav May 26
• Where do you put the circumflex in /hcircumflex, and caron in /kcaron?

  723 views 18 comments 0 points Most recent by Cristóbal Henestrosa March 23
• Eyeball font identification party trick strategies

  452 views 8 comments 1 point Most recent by John Butler January 16
• Much of Thompson’s “The Script Letter” is nearly copied from a book that came 100 years before

  271 views 2 comments 3 points Most recent by PabloImpallari January 15
• Wishing fit curves was a thing in illustrator

  582 views 15 comments 1 point Most recent by Lila Symons December 2022
• The Six Basic Typefaces of Massimo Vignelli

  1.2K views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard December 2022
• Do we have Conditional Ligature feature only in certain conditions???

  251 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by WAY KYI August 2022
• Can you do reorder to the glyphs and apply ligature after that?

  1.1K views 71 comments 0 points Most recent by WAY KYI August 2022
• Books/methods for learning calligraphy

  631 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn July 2022
• OpenType 1.9.1 alpha

  134 views 0 comments 1 point Started by Peter Constable June 2022
• What's the rectangle surrounding a font glyph, including its sidebearings, called?

  1.1K views 28 comments 0 points Most recent by Ray Larabie June 2022
• Kern On pair and word lists

  153 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by jeremy tribby June 2022
• Font suggestion category?

  252 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson April 2022
• Diacritic Kerning Pairs

  212 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Alex Visi April 2022
• How to create a cursive fonts from a design that my friend has drew.

  383 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by andi aw. masry March 2022
• Sloping math symbols in italic faces, is it normal?

  2.6K views 35 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini February 2022
• Is German Not in Need of a New Letter?

  621 views 21 comments 1 point Most recent by Christian Thalmann January 2022
• What is the exercise called by former students of type@cooper? or type@media I think?

  301 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by AbiRasheed November 2021
• It's not a perfect ellipse, why?

  661 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Chris Lozos October 2021
• Sketching from the inside (counters) out

  332 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Johannes Neumeier September 2021
• Lower case r glyph variants in Sans Serif typefaces

  302 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Christian Thalmann August 2021
• Font revival from A to B

  1K views 26 comments 2 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer July 2021
• variable fonts: trapezoids?

  241 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson June 2021
• Variable height axis font

  913 views 25 comments 0 points Most recent by Dave Crossland May 2021
• Your most valuable Tips & Tricks in Type Design!

  1.8K views 45 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Cooke April 2021
• Synchronizing masters FL7

  291 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini February 2021
• "Cursive" italic forms

  541 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Andreas Stötzner February 2021