Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• Follow these steps to create a CYRILLIC LETTER I WITH GRAVE in FontLab 8:

  501 views 8 comments 1 point Most recent by John Hudson June 2023
• Does one kern a duplex font?

  283 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Ruixi Zhang June 2023
• Typewriter typeface vs monospace typeface

  3.5K views 40 comments 2 points Most recent by John Savard June 2023
• Half brackets from Supplemental Punctuation block. Is there a standard for them?

  608 views 3 comments 1 point Most recent by Denis Moyogo Jacquerye May 2023
• Most relevant kerning pairs for CYR/GRK

  389 views 1 comment 3 points Most recent by Stefan Peev May 2023
• How to calculate other stem widths of masters from Regular weight

  592 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Luis Castellon Quesada May 2023
• how to construct large math operators

  413 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Simon Cozens May 2023
• Design differences between text font and math font

  1.4K views 11 comments 2 points Most recent by John Savard April 2023
• Where do I put the extra characters?

  393 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson April 2023
• Should ascenders/descenders match the "Ascender" and "Descender" vertical metric values?

  1.3K views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by PabloImpallari April 2023
• Decision for the glyphs to represent binary numbers

  192 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Mikhail Vasilev April 2023
• Periodcentered

  2.8K views 30 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini April 2023
• [OTVar] Dependent axes?

  801 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by Laurence Penney March 2023
• Even 1200-dpi printer not good enough for testing spacing & kerning at text size. What do you do?

  935 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Igor Freiberger March 2023
• Converting Obscure Font Format into TTF

  912 views 15 comments 1 point Most recent by thecogdesigns March 2023
• Leaving out the standard ligatures – problems?

  1.6K views 41 comments 1 point Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 2023
• u+00af and u+02c9

  1.3K views 30 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson March 2023
• Icons to font file conversion

  383 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Roel Nieskens March 2023
• Monospace Font Spacing

  1.3K views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Craig Eliason February 2023
• Unicode: where is the Drachma sign?

  595 views 10 comments 2 points Most recent by Peter Constable January 2023
• Call-out for multi-lingual type designers!

  191 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney January 2023
• Florin sign (ƒ)

  11.4K views 68 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini January 2023
• Art deco proportions for Þ Ł Ð

  331 views 4 comments 1 point Most recent by K Pease January 2023
• Language-specific considerations/best practices

  862 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by jeremy tribby January 2023
• Transparency, gradients

  371 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Pircher January 2023
• My text face wish list

  5.2K views 106 comments 21 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini January 2023
• Empirical Statistics of Font/Glyph Metrics

  351 views 6 comments 1 point Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer January 2023
• Create one glyph and extrapolate its design to create others?

  612 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by jeremy tribby December 2022
• Do you always start over a new font from scratch?

  1.2K views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by Craig Eliason December 2022
• Reasonableness of idea 'L apostrophe → Lcaron' ligature

  631 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Alex Visi December 2022