Type Design Technique & Theory

Discussion List

• Vertical metrics strategy for optical sizes

  412 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?

  244 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?

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

  783 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

  495 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?

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

  1.5K views 38 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Curtis July 2021
• Final production steps

  641 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
• brecveinvertedcomb

  131 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Jani Paavola June 2021
• Searching for best fonts with this kind of kink

  611 views 11 comments 1 point Most recent by AbiRasheed June 2021
• Why the link on the first zero in %?

  523 views 27 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard June 2021
• Accents part of the 2048/1000 limit?

  1.2K views 20 comments 1 point Most recent by Florian Pircher June 2021
• Which is the most effective naming convention for optical sizes?

  1.9K views 55 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard June 2021
• What's your standard glyph set/coverage?

  1.4K views 28 comments 0 points Most recent by Dave Crossland June 2021
• Letter-fitting and spacing research

  501 views 20 comments 1 point Most recent by John Hudson May 2021
• The Silcrow is currently my nemesis

  763 views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by John Savard May 2021
• Onĕipŏt is not a real language.

  931 views 17 comments 6 points Most recent by Yves Michel May 2021
• What does font production mean?

  732 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini May 2021
• Numerals and distinction between capital O and number 0

  1.1K views 15 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini May 2021
• Let's chat about Trademark, Registered & Copyright Symbols

  2.4K views 45 comments 2 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev May 2021
• How do you keep track of kerning classes (or kerning information in general)?

  824 views 15 comments 1 point Most recent by Ori Ben-Dor April 2021
• Replace ß by smallcap eszett or smallcap ss?

  2.1K views 62 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian April 2021
• GPOS: How many different anchors are necessary?

  892 views 14 comments 0 points Most recent by Florian Pircher April 2021
• let's talk Greek kai symbol

  2.9K views 70 comments 0 points Most recent by K Pease April 2021