Type Design Technique & Theory

Discussion List

• How does decimal sidebearing affect stem width after rounding?

  122 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Michael Rafailyk February 7
• Introducing my Automatic Kerning and Automatic Slanted Curve Correction Services

  478 views 3 comments 10 points Most recent by John Hudson February 5
• The I ogonek in sans-serif monospaced typefaces

  363 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Melvian February 3
• Accented letters in font names

  589 views 20 comments 0 points Most recent by Yves Michel February 1
• Regular vs Book

  4.3K views 36 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn January 20
• What could be an effective strategy for handling frac/tions in OpenType fonts?

  703 views 30 comments 0 points Most recent by Khaled Hosny January 14
• moving nodes along the contours

  273 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson January 13
• IPA: Best practice?

  3.6K views 94 comments 0 points Most recent by Denis Moyogo Jacquerye January 12
• Optimal Positioning and Sizing for Drop Caps

  252 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn January 6
• Looking for critiques!

  492 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Alanna Munro December 2024
• Diacritics size on capital vs Lowercase in Vietnamese

  436 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Johannes Neumeier December 2024
• All caps descender setting

  213 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Ray Larabie December 2024
• Condensed Light vs. Light Condensed

  474 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson November 2024
• How to design Serbian Cyrillic PART 2 — True Italics

  375 views 7 comments 7 points Most recent by Igor Petrovic November 2024
• Colour Fonts + MS Word + Windows Dark Mode

  283 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Daniel Yacob October 2024
• Bolshoi logo, 1963

  366 views 4 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard October 2024
• Endangered Alphabets Calligraphy (Book Kickstarter)

  132 views 0 comments 5 points Started by James Puckett October 2024
• Correct forms of Arabic letters based on Heh

  182 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson September 2024
• Guides for designing Cyrillic letters Њ, Љ, Ћ, Ђ, Џ

  2.4K views 32 comments 21 points Most recent by Christian Thalmann September 2024
• Looking for advice on improving my eye

  513 views 5 comments 1 point Most recent by Igor Petrovic September 2024
• How do you maintain letter-form consistency?

  733 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson September 2024
• VTT on ARM Macs with Parallels Desktop

  414 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson September 2024
• germandbls monowidth small cap

  862 views 28 comments 0 points Most recent by BraveType August 2024
• Smoothness of Tunni curves

  874 views 9 comments 8 points Most recent by Jens Kutilek July 2024
• Ignoring Extremum in Flared Serif?

  323 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by WillBennett July 2024
• Please list your favorite foreign looking Latin fonts

  1.9K views 39 comments 1 point Most recent by Vasil Stanev July 2024
• Cyrillic lowercase shha (һ) - ascending vs non-ascending

  1.6K views 52 comments 0 points Most recent by Tural Alisoy July 2024
• Spacing sans serif body copy font

  292 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson July 2024
• With more appearances of "AI" in text, I wonder about /I with crossbars

  1.2K views 16 comments 2 points Most recent by Kent Lew June 2024
• Books on logo design – any recommendations?

  482 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Igor Petrovic June 2024