Technique and Theory

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• Where do you put the circumflex in /hcircumflex, and caron in /kcaron?

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

  410 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

  233 views 2 comments 3 points Most recent by PabloImpallari January 15
• Mark to Base on Ligatured glyphs

  155 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson December 2022
• Wishing fit curves was a thing in illustrator

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  165 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.

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

  2.4K views 35 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini February 2022
• Is German Not in Need of a New Letter?

  572 views 21 comments 1 point Most recent by Christian Thalmann January 2022
• What is the exercise called by former students of [email protected]? or [email protected] I think?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  1.5K views 45 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Cooke April 2021
• Synchronizing masters FL7

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

  455 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Andreas Stötzner February 2021
• Made my first Letter ever! Feedback is appreciated

  238 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Daniel Calders February 2021
• Names for graphic shapes?

  752 views 27 comments 0 points Most recent by Johannes Neumeier January 2021
• Diaeresis/umlaut height

  452 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn December 2020