Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• The self‌less butterfly. Or: Using and avoiding ligatures.

  711 views 23 comments 3 points Most recent by Rafael Cases May 5
• The default line height in OSX fontbook

  362 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Jonny Gibson May 2
• Where is anchor information stored (FontForge)?

  121 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Mikomasr May 1
• Georgian Italic

  351 views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Rafael Cases May 1
• What is best practise in variable font development?

  622 views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by Andreas Stötzner April 29
• How do I start working on italics?

  511 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Rafael Cases April 29
• Can the crossbar in Ħ be lowered?

  211 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Christian Thalmann April 28
• Two Discretionary Ligatures for the Same Letter Combo

  301 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Weakley April 25
• Designing a shorthand font with FontForge

  111 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Mikomasr April 23
• Comma accent: acute or comma style?

  241 views 8 comments 1 point Most recent by Adam Jagosz April 20
• Vertical Metrics redundancy

  111 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by André G. Isaak April 17
• 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

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

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

  401 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?

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

  2.8K views 107 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard March 3
• modern text font without kerning or with just a few kerning pairs

  521 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

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

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

  132 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

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

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

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

  321 views 5 comments -1 point Most recent by Vasil Stanev January 21