Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• Will I run into any issues if I don't include all the glyphs from a codepage (i.e skipping ∏∑√∂)?

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

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

  311 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard September 2021
• Can MS Word files be converted from ASCII fonts to Unicode fonts?

  143 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Cognate September 2021
• How do I start working on italics?

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• Vertical metrics strategy for optical sizes

  324 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn September 2021
• Font with extremely tall ascenders/descenders in multiline text in Adobe applications

  392 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by André G. Isaak September 2021
• Can 'calts' and positional forms have stylistic sets?

  92 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Leon Coward August 2021
• Final/intial features

  1.1K views 15 comments 2 points Most recent by Simon Cozens August 2021
• For those who have worked with icon fonts before: overshoots or no overshoots?

  176 views 3 comments 1 point Most recent by Thomas Phinney August 2021
• Industrial typefaces

  667 views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Russell McGorman July 2021
• Strategies for drawing a variable sans with weight, width, and preferably slant axes

  316 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Ori Ben-Dor July 2021
• Looking for references of very heavy serifs with diagonal stress

  1.1K views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Ori Ben-Dor July 2021
• zero-length Bézier control point on a (PostScript) curve: how bad is it?

  164 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney July 2021
• How long does it takes for you to finish a typeface?

  1.1K views 38 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Curtis July 2021
• Final production steps

  550 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn July 2021
• OT: error on compiling (FL5)

  186 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by Mike Duggan June 2021
• Macintosh OS 11 Big Sur: system typeface desaster and related issues

  2K views 34 comments 0 points Most recent by Eris Alar June 2021
• Brain Sees Words As Pictures

  3.2K views 53 comments 4 points Most recent by Russell McGorman June 2021
• brecveinvertedcomb

  124 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Jani Paavola June 2021
• Searching for best fonts with this kind of kink

  414 views 11 comments 1 point Most recent by AbiRasheed June 2021
• Why the link on the first zero in %?

  442 views 27 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard June 2021
• Accents part of the 2048/1000 limit?

  875 views 20 comments 1 point Most recent by Florian Pircher June 2021
• Which is the most effective naming convention for optical sizes?

  1.1K views 55 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard June 2021
• What's your standard glyph set/coverage?

  791 views 28 comments 0 points Most recent by Dave Crossland June 2021
• Letter-fitting and spacing research

  444 views 20 comments 1 point Most recent by John Hudson May 2021
• The Silcrow is currently my nemesis

  384 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard May 2021
• Onĕipŏt is not a real language.

  835 views 17 comments 6 points Most recent by Yves Michel May 2021
• What does font production mean?

  466 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini May 2021
• Numerals and distinction between capital O and number 0

  474 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini May 2021