Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• How to best give access to special characters in a font

  1K views 55 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard April 2020
• TT points at extrema: off-curve OK?

  255 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 2020
• Strategies for inverted exclamation and question marks

  458 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn March 2020
• Discretionary kerning

  222 views 9 comments 2 points Most recent by Craig Eliason March 2020
• Variants of the decimal point

  274 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson March 2020
• Examples of Serif Styles?

  276 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney March 2020
• Latinized Greek

  3.1K views 107 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard March 2020
• modern text font without kerning or with just a few kerning pairs

  531 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn March 2020
• Precomposed fractions — waste of time and space?

  1.2K views 62 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson February 2020
• Guides for designing Cyrillic letters Њ, Љ, Ћ, and Ђ

  838 views 24 comments 16 points Most recent by Igor Petrovic February 2020
• OpenType GPOS Lookups for Urdu

  203 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson February 2020
• Stylistic Sets — have to be consecutive?

  131 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson February 2020
• Layered fonts: layer suffix in family name or style name?

  122 views 13 comments 0 points Most recent by Ray Larabie February 2020
• A little curiosity about COMBINIG GRAPHEME JOINER

  112 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer February 2020
• Rounded Cyrillic M

  199 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Viktor Rubenko January 2020
• Need name suggestion for the axis controlling apex in variable font

  182 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Muhammad Ariq Syauqi January 2020
• Why are A and E crossbars so rarely aligned?

  337 views 5 comments -1 point Most recent by Vasil Stanev January 2020
• Autohint better than my TTF Hinting–What can I improve?

  215 views 2 comments 2 points Most recent by Lukas Horn January 2020
• Do you sort your glyphs?

  596 views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland January 2020
• Interminable neon

  403 views 10 comments 3 points Most recent by Mark Simonson January 2020
• The design process

  1.8K views 59 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn December 2019
• Case-sensitive baseline quote marks?

  111 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Adam Ladd November 2019
• Anchor positioning habits

  756 views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by Johannes Neumeier November 2019
• Material Icons Bezier Paths

  221 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by André G. Isaak November 2019
• Stylistic sets in ITC Avant Garde

  306 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by Jim Parrillo November 2019
• A Meditation on Arno

  335 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson November 2019
• List of glyphs that remain upright in italics

  585 views 21 comments 1 point Most recent by John Savard November 2019
• Proofreaders needed for a tutorial on extending a Latin set

  581 views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Frode Helland October 2019
• Notdef: generic or style-specific?

  752 views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by David Kerkhoff October 2019
• Coding: Deactivating ligatures in the superscript feature

  221 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Erwin Denissen October 2019