Technique and Theory

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• OpenType SVG color fonts coming to Windows 10 :)

  4.4K views 60 comments 5 points Most recent by Jens Kutilek March 2022
• manat and new shekel height?

  315 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Tural Alisoy March 2022
• Ukrainian Ґ

  1.2K views 31 comments 5 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev March 2022
• Adding a new glyph to a keyboard shortcut

  178 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Danielillo March 2022
• Fontlab - Arabic kerning

  214 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by AzizMostafa AzizAli February 2022
• Aliased type in web browsers?

  284 views 10 comments 1 point Most recent by Mark Simonson February 2022
• A Meditation on Arno

  605 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by John Butler February 2022
• Sharp S can appear at start of word

  1.4K views 78 comments 4 points Most recent by george_thompson January 2022
• Where to place special characters in a font

  277 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard January 2022
• Trying to create a lightweight fallback font with a substitute all glyphs feature.

  524 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Michael Rafailyk January 2022
• Question from graphic design student about Indesign - Italics - GREP

  172 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Joshua Langman January 2022
• Vertical positioning: matching glyphs vs CCP measured alignment

  128 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson January 2022
• Using B-splines to draw italics

  597 views 9 comments 4 points Most recent by Christian Thalmann December 2021
• Making a Devanagari rupee sign work in Indesign with Opentype

  633 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson November 2021
• Naming the 3s

  394 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson November 2021
• Does anybody know how to find the book “Scripts”

  121 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by John Savard November 2021
• Why are italics lighter than their upright counterparts?

  1K views 20 comments 3 points Most recent by Russell McGorman November 2021
• Uppercase dotted I and J in French football jerseys

  285 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Russell McGorman November 2021
• What non-English ligatures are there?

  1.5K views 47 comments 1 point Most recent by Thomas Phinney November 2021
• Kerning Figures to Letters

  645 views 19 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard October 2021
• A how-to guide to TrueType hinting variable fonts, with Visual TrueType

  143 views 0 comments 3 points Started by Mike Duggan October 2021
• Japanese Characters - Legibility, Focus Points

  103 views 0 comments 0 points Started by EmilyB October 2021
• Small Caps Practice

  739 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Michael Rafailyk October 2021
• Unicase germandbls

  332 views 12 comments 2 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) October 2021
• Best practices for .null and .notdef?

  493 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by John Hudson October 2021
• Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar

  1.8K views 43 comments 1 point Most recent by Andreas Stötzner October 2021
• Different "story" structures in small sizes: a poll

  432 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer September 2021
• Will I run into any issues if I don't include all the glyphs from a codepage (i.e skipping ∏∑√∂)?

  496 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Peter Constable September 2021
• Non-English languages that use the 26 letters used in English

  364 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Laurensius Adi September 2021
• Anatomy of Typography - SHOULDER

  323 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard September 2021