Lettering Technique & Theory

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• Science versus reading software

  302 views 2 comments 11 points Most recent by Nick Shinn May 2024
• Is there some version of Century Gothic that supports Georgian?

  621 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson April 2024
• Non-Latin "DNA" words

  481 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Olexa Volochay April 2024
• Exporting a single line open contour svg font from Fontlab

  762 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev March 2024
• PSA: A guide on how to draw a proper capital Eszett (ẞ)

  921 views 11 comments 7 points Most recent by Russell McGorman February 2024
• Anchor attachment

  371 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson December 2023
• Where do you put the circumflex in /hcircumflex, and caron in /kcaron?

  1.3K views 20 comments 0 points Most recent by Tural Alisoy December 2023
• Mark to Base on Ligatured glyphs

  472 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson August 2023
• Lithuanian I/i with ogonek in serif typeface

  1.1K views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev June 2023
• Should roman and italic tabular figures have the same width?

  501 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Raphaël Ronot June 2023
• What were the key changes made when we started designing typefaces for screens?

  1.6K views 21 comments 0 points Most recent by Niteesh Yadav May 2023
• Eyeball font identification party trick strategies

  501 views 8 comments 1 point Most recent by John Butler January 2023
• Wishing fit curves was a thing in illustrator

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

  3.9K views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard December 2022
• Do we have Conditional Ligature feature only in certain conditions???

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

  1.5K views 71 comments 0 points Most recent by WAY KYI August 2022
• Books/methods for learning calligraphy

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

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

  1.8K views 28 comments 0 points Most recent by Ray Larabie June 2022
• Kern On pair and word lists

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

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

  321 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.

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

  3.2K views 35 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini February 2022
• Is German Not in Need of a New Letter?

  722 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?

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

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

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

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

  1.2K views 26 comments 2 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer July 2021