Type Design Technique & Theory

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• Just curious... do you enjoy drawing the thin or black masters more?

  867 views 20 comments 0 points Most recent by Paul Hanslow October 2023
• Foundry initials before font name

  1.4K views 22 comments 1 point Most recent by Michael Wallner September 2023
• Neutral Typeface Ideas?

  1.2K views 19 comments 0 points Most recent by Eris Alar September 2023
• Modifier Letter Rhotic Hook

  3.4K views 76 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson September 2023
• calculating word space

  555 views 7 comments 1 point Most recent by John Hudson August 2023
• Grid Test of Letters

  808 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Michael Wallner August 2023
• Is capital alpha just /A?

  596 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Stefan Peev August 2023
• Tabular punctuation in the font with both Lining and Oldstyle Figures

  325 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Michael Rafailyk August 2023
• Examples of Non-Traditional/Unique Variable Fonts?

  1K views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Connor Davenport August 2023
• How to make a handwritten font?

  650 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Yves Michel August 2023
• What is the standard practice for naming instances with multiple styles?

  281 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson July 2023
• Tips on drawings?

  562 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by jeremy tribby July 2023
• Follow these steps to create a CYRILLIC LETTER I WITH GRAVE in FontLab 8:

  505 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?

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

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

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

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

  1.5K views 11 comments 2 points Most recent by John Savard April 2023
• Where do I put the extra characters?

  397 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

  196 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?

  804 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?

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

  922 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

  400 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Roel Nieskens March 2023