Type Design Technique & Theory

Discussion List

• Looking for vintage engraver’s lettering manuals

  361 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) March 2021
• Glyph Set for Book Typesetting

  341 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Laurensius Adi March 2021
• What is the proper name to give to each Weight? — TyMS WEIGHTS (#TW) THESIS.

  1.1K views 30 comments 5 points Most recent by Pedro Mascarenhas March 2021
• Books on developing font weights?

  1.4K views 30 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian March 2021
• Font with locl feature

  472 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by Yves Michel February 2021
• How do you implement ijacute and IJacute?

  1.4K views 10 comments 0 points Most recent by Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian February 2021
• UC-only font with double unicodes

  1K views 25 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney February 2021
• Maths glyphs in a non-maths font?

  1.7K views 35 comments 2 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini February 2021
• Where should diacritics lie within vertical metrics?

  393 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson February 2021
• How to make last written glyph to be on top ? [FontLab7]

  131 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney January 2021
• Latin glyphs doesn't work on Fontlab7

  301 views 7 comments 0 points Most recent by ahmederaqi January 2021
• Autotracing is Boring and Autotracing is Exciting

  572 views 11 comments 2 points Most recent by Nick Shinn January 2021
• How do you folks handle quality control?

  691 views 16 comments 1 point Most recent by Claudio Piccinini January 2021
• How to enter Font Info

  81 views 0 comments 0 points Started by Josh Nychuk January 2021
• Do you have the most obscure of Czech words.

  151 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by Filip Blazek January 2021
• What units per em do you tend to use during fontdevelopment?

  1.8K views 35 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini January 2021
• Book, Regular, Medium

  13K views 92 comments 0 points Most recent by Claudio Piccinini December 2020
• Single-descender Cyrillic de

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

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

  1.9K views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by Piotr Grochowski December 2020
• Arabic font : "Mark" problem with Ligatures.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  1.6K views 26 comments 3 points Most recent by Chris Lozos November 2020
• Favorite ultralight diacritical marks

  652 views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by Matthew Smith November 2020