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• Designing a Better Unicode Fancy Text Generator: What Matters Most?

  587 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney August 1Type Design Software
• Honorific ligatures for Islamic texts: gaps and open questions

  288 views 0 comments 4 points Started by husada June 6 Type Design Technique & Theory
• Monotonic Greek in double encoded unicase fonts

  Answered 363 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn March 14Font Technology
• Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

  Answered ✓ 313 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by michele casanova January 25Type Design Technique & Theory
• FontEnigma

  4.5K views 44 comments 5 points Most recent by John Savard November 2025Font Technology
• Unicode 17.0 released

  182 views 0 comments 9 points Most recent by Peter Constable September 2025Miscellaneous News
• font fragility and mid-word styling

  543 views 6 comments 0 points Most recent by bdenckla September 2025Font Technology
• How does Unicode work?

  689 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Nick Shinn August 2025Font Technology
• New UAE Dirham Currency Symbol

  5.2K views 24 comments 1 point Most recent by Peter Constable August 2025Type Design Technique & Theory
• Hebrew dagesh ḥazaq proposal draft

  684 views 10 comments 1 point Most recent by Peter Constable July 2025Font Technology
• Hebrew sheva na provisionally assigned to U+05C8 ("Heavy Sheva")

  402 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson June 2025Font Technology
• Hebrew need for another mark in unicode - Sheva Na, Dagesh Hazeq

  3.4K views 38 comments 1 point Most recent by bdenckla May 2025Font Technology
• How would you redo Unicode?

  927 views 22 comments 0 points Most recent by Peter Constable May 2025Type Design Technique & Theory
• Digital Greek Typography is Broken

  3.1K views 45 comments 2 points Most recent by mitradranirban April 2025Miscellaneous News
• DirectWrite and the Unicode PUA -Can they work together?

  614 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Daniel Yacob September 2024Font Technology
• Fonts work in Fontlab8 Preview Window, but not in Indesign or Word

  361 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson April 2024Font Technology
• Definition of 'shaping engine'? (Or, what is HarfBuzz?)

  1K views 12 comments 0 points Most recent by pereelmagne February 2024Type Design Technique & Theory
• Modifier Letter Rhotic Hook

  4.5K views 76 comments 0 points Most recent by John Hudson September 2023Type Design Technique & Theory
• Microsoft Word and OpenType Substitions for non-Latin Sequences?

  1K views 16 comments 0 points Most recent by Peter Baker August 2023Font Technology
• Where do I put the extra characters?

  610 views 8 comments 0 points Most recent by Mark Simonson April 2023Type Design Technique & Theory
• Can MS Word files be converted from ASCII fonts to Unicode fonts?

  424 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Cognate September 2021Type Design Technique & Theory
• Better-Engineered Font Formats

  272 views 2 comments 4 points Most recent by Behdad Esfahbod June 2021Font Technology
• Pictograms, Unicode, and ISO

  1.5K views 19 comments 1 point Most recent by Titus Nemeth May 2021Font Technology
• UC-only font with double unicodes

  1.4K views 25 comments 0 points Most recent by Thomas Phinney February 2021Type Design Technique & Theory
• Macro for Fontlab for automatic assigning custom Unicode values

  262 views 2 comments 0 points Most recent by Dusan Jelesijevic March 2020Font Technology
• OTM 8 Sneak Preview

  844 views 5 comments 0 points Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland March 2020Font Technology
• Technically correct versus practical application

  600 views 9 comments 0 points Most recent by Helmut Wollmersdorfer February 2020Font Technology
• Do you sort your glyphs?

  1.6K views 23 comments 0 points Most recent by LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland January 2020Type Design Technique & Theory
• Adobe Type is looking for a Senior Font Developer

  594 views 0 comments 1 point Most recent by DanRhatigan October 2019Job Postings
• accented and other glyphs in question

  854 views 3 comments 0 points Most recent by Vasil Stanev October 2019Type Design Critiques