/r/typedesign
A subreddit for the art and craft of type design. Welcome are all who appreciate the beauty and functionality of letterforms and typefaces.
Learn the process of creating fonts from scratch, post work in progress files for critique and discussion advertise your completed fonts. Share inspiring content on type design, lettering, specimens, typography, type foundries and type designers. Discuss any technical or artistic aspects of designing typefaces.
A subreddit for the art and craft of type design.
Absolute beginners, advanced and expert type designers are all welcome here.
Do you want to learn how to design a font, but just have no idea where to begin? Do you feel overwhelmed by type design software? Are you looking to get feedback on fonts you are working on, or do you just want to share a beautiful letterform or font you have discovered? This might be the place for you!
Please do post
- Work in progress of typefaces for critique or discussion
- Finished typefaces you have designed
- Examples of interesting or beautiful letterforms, type specimens and fonts
- Any content concerning type designers and type foundries (interviews, lectures, articles etc)
- Guides, tutorials and walkthroughs
- Questions or troubles with type design software
- Discussions on technical or artistic aspects
Please do not post
- Typeface identification requests (Please visit /r/identifythisfont)
- Designs which concern themselves with the arrangement of type rather than the design of the letterforms (try /r/typography for that)
- Repeated plugs of your own typefaces without contributing to the community (you are welcome to post typefaces you are selling, but try to bring something to the community by describing how you created the font or answering questions)
/r/typedesign
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Kerning Pairs Generator
I've built a small tool that can help generate kerning pairs and download them in various formats for Fontlab, BirdFont, etc. I'm looking forward to your feedback to improve the app and make it more useful. https://kerning-pairs-generator.vercel.app/
12:20 UTC
Add .alt characters to a glyphs mini project
Hi all! As the title says, is there an external way to add some alternative characters to a font that was made in glyphs mini? At the moment I cannot afford the full version of glyphs but I want to add some alt characters to my fonts. Is there a script or an editor that will read my glyphs file (and don’t mess with it), that can add some alt characters? Thanks in advance!
05:19 UTC
Can someone help me modifying an existing font?
I have never edited or made a font, but right now i need to somehow edit an existing font. Im very lost.
What i want should be relatively simple… I hope…
I want to use the google font “Texturina” in my project. But my project has a lot of numbers in it and the numbers are soooo bad in that font.
I want to do either of the two option (Whichever is simpler)
- Replace all the Numbers with the numbers of the google font “Germania One” or…
- Fix the Numbers in texturina, Make them all the same height (As big as the Big letter X) and have them all be alligned on the bottom with every other letter. Just make them a bit more uniform to every other letter.
Can someone give me some help? Or maybe a tutorial i can watch to do something like this?
(Preferably for a Web based solution or an iPad app, because i don't have a PC right now.)
Edit: solved!
The font has open type numbers that look exactly like I want them.
19:01 UTC
Progressing in type design?
HI! I'm a graphic designer trying to dive deeper into type design in Glyphs and my current approach is reading books about type design and simply trying to make fonts, based on the accumulated knowledge. At this point I feel like I can make a relatively consistent set of characters, however I can also tell that sometimes certain glyphs feel "off" and that there is something wrong - I simply can't tell what, due to lack of experience.
How do I go about this without any type of mentor?
15:05 UTC
Which of these look better to you? (completely new to type design)
09:36 UTC
Creating a bitmap font in 2024 - how to?
Hi, i came to ask here, because somebody may have an idea.
I need to create a bitmap font from a set of colorful icons I have for a board game that I'm working on. The reason I need it is because I'm designing everything in Figma, and I need to insert my icons into text, to make writing and editing rules much easier.
(there are no anchor characters and inline images and such like there are in InDesign)
Please do not suggest I use InDesign, it's a horrid old program, and besides, converting my entire project to InDesign would take weeks and introduce different problems.
I thought this will be a simple matter, i'll just pack my icons into some program and out goes a bitmap font, but it's hell. There seem to be no good bitmap font formats and also the tools for editing them are all very old and crappy.
All I need is a way to import some png/bitmap images into some tool, and output a basic font which can display them, 64-color palette seems good enough, doesn't need to even support transparency.
14:04 UTC
My work in progress fonts
10:14 UTC
Where do you guys promote your typefaces?
as in, on what platforms are you active and or any other promotion suggestion?
I'm compiling a small list of suggestions for independent type designers!
18:30 UTC
Janek. A semi-serif type family.
10:40 UTC
I'm looking for a type style that screams "Speed"
Looking for type or lettering that looks like a visual representation of extremely fast movement. I can't elaborate further.
EDIT: I actually probably can elaborate further. The type needs to have movement, a slant to it, probably some sharp angles and what looks like rapid execution (imagine writing with sudden bursts).
16:35 UTC
Created this typeface today. thoughts?
19:58 UTC
The video explains how to use GPOS mark to base position and anchors to generate accented and composite glyphs.
14:14 UTC
This video explains how we can use code syntaxes to create or edit Polytonic Greek letters. The video is a part of the project Common Serif on GitHub. See more on the subject at GitHub repo https://github.com/StefanPeev/Common-Serif/blob/main/documentation/Greek/Greek.md
22:09 UTC
WORKSHOP WITH THE MODERATOR
19:11 UTC
Type Designers based in Africa
I'm doing a branding project for a brand that represents the African continent. I want to make sure we use typefaces created by African designers. Is anyone a type designer based in Africa or does anyone have any suggestions/recommendations?
10:05 UTC
My First Font Design - Elkhorn Auto! Born from a road trip in Canada.
22:32 UTC
My first typeface
This is my first typeface which I consider nearly done. It only took me like milion hours to finish. Now I'm looking for some constructive criticism before I put it out. So what do you think?
15:43 UTC
How do I start designing fonts?
Hi! I am quite new to the world of type and would like to try designing my own font. As Im a poor student and very familiar with the adobe programs I was wondering if there are any good and cheap/free plugins, add ons or programs for a beginner to start with? I have checked out Fontself a litte, if any of you know if its good? Thank you in advance! :’)
Oh and also, if you have any tips and tricks you are more than welcome to share! I am creating display font as I have heard its easier for a beginner.
08:36 UTC
Small caps in all-caps font
I'm making all-caps typeface and have drawn small capitals too. Now I'm not sure if it's better for users to have those small caps encoded as lowercase or to have capitals in lowercase and keep the small caps as small caps. What's the common practice?
09:18 UTC
«Tossing Lanterns», an article about the design of Ready, and our interest in illegible typefaces.
07:04 UTC
ALT.tf is out! (& is running a 50% OFF)
And I'm really happy both because I've worked really hard in collaboration with Amber Weaver on the design for the fresh new site, and because one of my typefaces is on it:
https://alt-tf.com/
There's a 50% OFF using RIVIERA50
16:57 UTC
BlockFace: a modular rubber stamp type kit
Hey everyone, this is a project that I’ve been working on a for a few years and have now released as a Kickstarter. You can check it out here:
11:46 UTC