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.

  480 discussions 9.9K comments Most recent: Elemaints - A Serif Family with Optical Sizes by Christian Thalmann August 25
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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.

  558 discussions 7.5K comments Most recent: LTTR/INK by jeremy tribby August 22
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  Type Design Technique & Theory

  Technique and theory of typeface design

  1.1K discussions 15.4K comments Most recent: Type Design vs Type Engineering? by Paul Hanslow 10:22AM
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  Type Business

  The business side of type design and font licensing.

  648 discussions 11K comments Most recent: Workshop Pricing by Fie Clarke 2:17PM
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  Font Technology

  Discussion specific to font technology.

  841 discussions 9.1K comments Most recent: How does Unicode work? by John Hudson 2:32PM
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  Punchcutting

  Discussion specific to making metal type

  29 discussions 133 comments Most recent: Drawing the movement: Nelly Gable's book on punchcutting by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland September 2019