Type Design Technique & Theory

Discussion List

• 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
• Bold small caps: necessity, abomination, or side effect of variability?

  638 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn June 2024
• ILT Academy online courses

  314 views 4 comments 2 points Most recent by Nadine Chahine June 2024
• Feature circled characters

  467 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Johannes Neumeier June 2024
• Preferences for showing the base character set: Aa Bb Cc ...or... ABC abc

  273 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn May 2024
• Contextual substitution issue in a multiline text

  334 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson May 2024
• making a stroke-based font in fontlab 8, need tips on efficiently flattening

  223 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Derik Schneider April 2024
• Forced discretionary ligatures

  625 views 19 comments 0 points Most recent by Peter Baker April 2024
• Carson Old Face

  416 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Dominic Stanley April 2024
• Does German Need a New Letter?

  1.1K views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by Russell McGorman April 2024
• Diacritic marks crashing into descenders and baseline

  544 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Josh Nychuk April 2024
• Swash Left Spacing

  332 views 3 comments 1 point Most recent by Jamie Clarke March 2024
• Latin fonts with caps that connect to the right

  595 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Yves Michel March 2024
• Optical Kerning technique for complex Arabic urdu fonts using external tool

  637 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Simon Cozens February 2024
• Definition of 'shaping engine'? (Or, what is HarfBuzz?)

  699 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by pereelmagne February 2024
• Italic letterforms (sans serif)...

  636 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney February 2024
• PS hinting and overshoot

  451 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson February 2024
• Rules while designing Italics

  1.5K views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini January 2024
• What is the font of the text?

  414 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by FontStudent January 2024
• Uogonek

  494 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Yves Michel January 2024
• exploring variable fonts - seeking tipps for nodes placing/outline design

  820 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by donat raetzo January 2024
• Reasons to NOT Standardize Cap-Height Across Font Library

  1.1K views 15 comments 1 point Most recent by Thomas Phinney December 2023
• Jan Middendorp has died.

  1.8K views 12 comments 10 points Most recent by Nadine Chahine December 2023
• Letterform Innovation?

  1.8K views 38 comments 0 points Most recent by donat raetzo November 2023
• Platonic Ideals in Typography

  1.6K views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Craig Eliason October 2023
• Different italic-"weights"

  544 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by c.g. October 2023
• Flipping alternates

  594 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Grzegorz Luk (gluk) October 2023
• Kerning of serif font....

  1.1K views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by James Hultquist-Todd October 2023
• Case sensitive forms

  3.9K views 46 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn October 2023