Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• Why are italics lighter than their upright counterparts?

  1.6K views 20 comments 3 points Most recent by Russell McGorman November 2021
• Uppercase dotted I and J in French football jerseys

  332 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Russell McGorman November 2021
• What non-English ligatures are there?

  1.7K views 47 comments 1 point Most recent by Thomas Phinney November 2021
• Kerning Figures to Letters

  777 views 19 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard October 2021
• A how-to guide to TrueType hinting variable fonts, with Visual TrueType

  174 views 0 comments 3 points Started by Mike Duggan October 2021
• Japanese Characters - Legibility, Focus Points

  122 views 0 comments 0 points Started by EmilyB October 2021
• Small Caps Practice

  940 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Michael Rafailyk October 2021
• Unicase germandbls

  451 views 12 comments 2 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) October 2021
• Best practices for .null and .notdef?

  1.5K views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by John Hudson October 2021
• Special dash things: softhyphen, horizontalbar

  2.7K views 43 comments 1 point Most recent by Andreas Stötzner October 2021
• Different "story" structures in small sizes: a poll

  493 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer September 2021
• Will I run into any issues if I don't include all the glyphs from a codepage (i.e skipping ∏∑√∂)?

  563 views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Peter Constable September 2021
• Non-English languages that use the 26 letters used in English

  448 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Laurensius Adi September 2021
• Anatomy of Typography - SHOULDER

  548 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard September 2021
• Can MS Word files be converted from ASCII fonts to Unicode fonts?

  345 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Cognate September 2021
• How do I start working on italics?

  1.6K views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by jeremy tribby September 2021
• Vertical metrics strategy for optical sizes

  413 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn September 2021
• Font with extremely tall ascenders/descenders in multiline text in Adobe applications

  1.1K views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by André G. Isaak September 2021
• Can 'calts' and positional forms have stylistic sets?

  250 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Leon Coward August 2021
• Final/intial features

  1.6K views 15 comments 2 points Most recent by Simon Cozens August 2021
• For those who have worked with icon fonts before: overshoots or no overshoots?

  233 views 3 comments 1 point Most recent by Thomas Phinney August 2021
• Industrial typefaces

  784 views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Russell McGorman July 2021
• Strategies for drawing a variable sans with weight, width, and preferably slant axes

  498 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Ori Ben-Dor July 2021
• Looking for references of very heavy serifs with diagonal stress

  1.2K views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Ori Ben-Dor July 2021
• zero-length Bézier control point on a (PostScript) curve: how bad is it?

  184 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney July 2021
• How long does it takes for you to finish a typeface?

  1.4K views 38 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Curtis July 2021
• Final production steps

  646 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn July 2021
• OT: error on compiling (FL5)

  241 views 17 comments 0 points Most recent by Mike Duggan June 2021
• Macintosh OS 11 Big Sur: system typeface desaster and related issues

  2.6K views 34 comments 0 points Most recent by Eris Alar June 2021
• Brain Sees Words As Pictures

  3.5K views 53 comments 5 points Most recent by Russell McGorman June 2021