Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• En dash = width of n?

  2.5K views 55 comments 0 points Most recent by ClintGoss April 16
• Freaky Greeks

  251 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard April 15
• How to best give access to special characters in a font

  999 views 55 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard April 13
• TT points at extrema: off-curve OK?

  258 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 26
• Strategies for inverted exclamation and question marks

  396 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn March 19
• Discretionary kerning

  221 views 9 comments 2 points Most recent by Craig Eliason March 17
• Variants of the decimal point

  261 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson March 11
• Examples of Serif Styles?

  272 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 6
• Latinized Greek

  2.7K views 107 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard March 3
• modern text font without kerning or with just a few kerning pairs

  527 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn March 2
• Precomposed fractions — waste of time and space?

  1.2K views 62 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson February 28
• Guides for designing Cyrillic letters Њ, Љ, Ћ, and Ђ

  650 views 24 comments 16 points Most recent by Igor Petrovic February 13
• OpenType GPOS Lookups for Urdu

  196 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson February 10
• Stylistic Sets — have to be consecutive?

  135 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson February 4
• Layered fonts: layer suffix in family name or style name?

  121 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Ray Larabie February 4
• A little curiosity about COMBINIG GRAPHEME JOINER

  118 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer February 2
• Rounded Cyrillic M

  169 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Viktor Rubenko January 28
• Need name suggestion for the axis controlling apex in variable font

  189 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Muhammad Ariq Syauqi January 27
• Why are A and E crossbars so rarely aligned?

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

  168 views 2 comments 2 points Most recent by Lukas Horn January 16
• Do you sort your glyphs?

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

  402 views 10 comments 3 points Most recent by Mark Simonson January 8
• The design process

  1.8K views 59 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn December 2019
• Case-sensitive baseline quote marks?

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

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

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

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

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

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

  583 views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Frode Helland October 2019