Typeface Design

Discussions pertaining to the design of typefaces.

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  Type Design Critiques

  Honest and constructive feedback from other professionals. For release announcements, use the Type Releases category.

  497 discussions 10K comments Most recent: Television Sans - my first ty… by sammularczyk October 11
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  Type Design Software

  Discussions specific to FontLab, Glyphs, AFDKO, Superpolator, Prepolator, Robofab, TTX, FontTools, UFOStretch, DTL Software, MS-Volt, Fontforge, etc.

  591 discussions 7.8K comments Most recent: New Plugin for Glyphs: TypeSp… by SCarewe 10:33AM
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  Type Design Technique & Theory

  Technique and theory of typeface design

  1.1K discussions 15.4K comments Most recent: Positioning of sups, subs, or… by Andreas Stötzner 10:12AM
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  Type Business

  The business side of type design and font licensing.

  674 discussions 11.1K comments Most recent: Industry Letter to Copyright … by Thomas Phinney October 2
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  Font Technology

  Discussion specific to font technology.

  906 discussions 9.9K comments Most recent: Dream big: your ideal composi… by Joshua Langman October 11
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  Punchcutting

  Discussion specific to making metal type

  29 discussions 138 comments Most recent: Drawing the movement: Nelly G… by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland September 2019