Typeface Design
Discussions pertaining to the design of typefaces.
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Expand for more options.Honest and constructive feedback from other professionals. For release announcements, use the Type Releases category.
489 discussions
9.9K comments
Most recent: Feedback for my first variable typeface by Craig Eliason
March 25
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Expand for more options.Discussions specific to FontLab, Glyphs, AFDKO, Superpolator, Prepolator, Robofab, TTX, FontTools, UFOStretch, DTL Software, MS-Volt, Fontforge, etc.
572 discussions
7.6K comments
Most recent: Introducing Colr Pak - a free open source editor for COLR v0 and v1 fonts by Dave Crossland
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Expand for more options.Technique and theory of typeface design
1.1K discussions
15.1K comments
Most recent: Redraw vs adjusting font (which is faster/easier?) by Dave Crossland
2:48AM
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Expand for more options.Discussion specific to making metal type
29 discussions
138 comments
Most recent: Drawing the movement: Nelly Gable's book on punchcutting by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland
September 2019
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