Type Design Technique & Theory

Discussion List

• Call-out for multi-lingual type designers!

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

  11.7K 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

  374 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

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

  611 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
• Elongation of Hebrew letters at the end of the row

  2.8K views 47 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev December 2022
• Thickness preference for crossbars of high contrast typeface

  183 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Adam Ladd December 2022
• TT hinting: thick and thin horizontal stems in a serif design

  242 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Mike Duggan November 2022
• Inconsistent overshoots?

  551 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Jasper de Waard November 2022
• No art training; where to start?

  832 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Dave Crossland November 2022
• Italic for ALL glyphs?

  652 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Christopher Slye November 2022
• Small Capital Figures?

  774 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson November 2022
• 円 design standards

  331 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) November 2022
• How to determine a perfect/test proofing word ?

  1.2K views 24 comments 7 points Most recent by Hugo Jourdan October 2022
• Terms and Definitions - a Cheat Sheet - Help/Insight

  621 views 30 comments 1 point Most recent by Nick Shinn October 2022
• Drawing Cyrillic т, ш, and ц With Thick Horizontal Strokes

  313 views 4 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson October 2022
• When did non-traditional cedillas appear?

  702 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn October 2022
• Necessary swash cap accents

  352 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by James Puckett October 2022
• How Glyph Level PS Hints actually work?

  672 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Igor Petrovic October 2022
• Text Rendering between InDesign and Illustrator

  841 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Igor Petrovic October 2022
• Kerning pairs you can’t do without

  772 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini September 2022
• font creation framework

  1.1K views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by FettleFoundry September 2022
• Which typeface is better: Helvetica or Akzidenz Grotesk?

  1.7K views 19 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard September 2022
• A problem with Alegreya

  422 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Fiz de la Peña September 2022
• Is it lawful for me to edit existing fonts?

  803 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Peter Constable September 2022