Technique and Theory

Discussion List

• What units per em do you tend to use during fontdevelopment?

  1.4K views 35 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini January 2021
• Book, Regular, Medium

  9.3K views 92 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini December 2020
• Single-descender Cyrillic de

  444 views 10 comments 1 point Most recent by Igor Petrovic December 2020
• Supersized em square

  241 views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Georg Seifert December 2020
• How to adjust Line space in Fontlab 7 ?

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• Arabic font : "Mark" problem with Ligatures.

  141 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by John Hudson December 2020
• Roman letters don't adhere to a nib angle do they?

  373 views 15 comments 1 point Most recent by Nick Shinn December 2020
• Precise Positioning of Devanagari Base glyph + Matra + Visarga + Svarita

  36 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Ashwini Aggarwal December 2020
• Versioning

  201 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson December 2020
• Conversion to .SWF format

  143 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Paul Miller December 2020
• Width Reduction In Sans-serif Italic Styles

  341 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian November 2020
• The Humpty A

  581 views 10 comments 1 point Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian November 2020
• Lowercase letter slots used to house Uppercase forms.

  512 views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian November 2020
• The self‌less butterfly. Or: Using and avoiding ligatures.

  1.4K views 26 comments 3 points Most recent by Chris Lozos November 2020
• Favorite ultralight diacritical marks

  606 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Matthew Smith November 2020
• How to combine ligatures and a stylistic set?

  261 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney November 2020
• Cycling through Positional Alternates

  312 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Simon Cozens October 2020
• principles for designing Greek "italics" (aka slanted Greek)

  1.8K views 29 comments 0 points Most recent by Rafael Cases October 2020
• Overlap in variable fonts

  1.4K views 24 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian October 2020
• IJ in a monowidth unicase typeface

  1.1K views 32 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard October 2020
• Apostrophe not showing

  62 views 1 comment 0 points Most recent by RichardW October 2020
• Border Ornaments and their implementation: questions & answers.

  274 views 7 comments 2 points Most recent by Andreas Stötzner October 2020
• Shape Of Cedilla

  2.4K views 47 comments 0 points Most recent by Ray Larabie September 2020
• Kerning Lowercase to Capitals

  201 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Paul Miller September 2020
• How "dangerous" are letter collisions?

  357 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by Piotr Grochowski September 2020
• Is gj an issue for everyone?

  695 views 27 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev September 2020
• Call for design suggestions: Anglicana W

  2.8K views 67 comments 3 points Most recent by Paul Hanslow July 2020
• German lead type for scholarship

  361 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Nolan July 2020
• MT Fournier, II

  416 views 11 comments 0 points Most recent by konrad ritter June 2020
• Z and 7 with a stroke

  2.8K views 26 comments 0 points Most recent by Denis Moyogo Jacquerye June 2020