Announcements from the forum’s moderators (read only).

Moderators: Yuri Yarmola (FontLab), Adam Twardoch (FontLab), Ted Harrison (FontLab), Der FontMeister (FontLab), Alex Petrov (FontLab), Sergey Malkin (Microsoft), Si Daniels (Microsoft), tiro_hudson, sbl_hooker

News from the font industry.

General discussion about the upcoming FontLab VI font editor and related type design software products (formerly known as "Victoria"). Please post feature requests, ideas, comments.

Newsfeed from Fontlab Ltd. (reply only)

Professional font editor by FontLab. General discussion

Font editor for Desktop Publishing by FontLab. General discussion

Basic font editor by FontLab. All topics

Outline font converter by FontLab. All topics

Professional bitmap font editor by FontLab. All topics

Free color font typesetter by FontLab. All topics.

High-end two-byte font editor by FontLab. All topics

Turn graphics into fonts, by FontLab. All topics

Turn images, logos and signatures into fonts, by FontLab. All topics

The art of type design, design styles, working methods

Development of OpenType Layout features: theoretical principles and the use of FontLab Studio or Adobe FDK for OpenType (AFDKO)

Hinting and screen quality of Type 1, TrueType and OpenType fonts

Technical structure of font formats (Type 1, TrueType, OpenType), font format specifications, low-level tools

Discussion about web font embedding technologies (EOT @font-face, OTF/TTF @font-face, sIFR etc.)

Discussion about webinars and videos published by FontLab

Moderators: Adam Twardoch (FontLab), Der FontMeister (FontLab), Alex Petrov (FontLab)

Post offers for work to be done in the field of type design or font technology.

Post here if you're available to take on work in the field of type design or font technology.

Set of free commandline applications for OpenType font development

Moderators: Paul Hunt (Adobe), Read Roberts (Adobe)

Free Windows tool for testing of TrueType and OpenType fonts

Moderators: Sergey Malkin (Microsoft), Si Daniels (Microsoft)

Free Windows tool for adding OpenType Layout tables to fonts with TrueType outlines

Moderators: Sergey Malkin (Microsoft), Si Daniels (Microsoft)

Free Windows tool allowing Web authors create EOT font objects

Moderators: Sergey Malkin (Microsoft), Si Daniels (Microsoft)

Windows tool for graphical hinting of OpenType fonts with TrueType outlines

Moderators: Sergey Malkin (Microsoft), Si Daniels (Microsoft)

Python scripting in FontLab Studio, TransType or RoboFab

Discussion about other 3rd party font-related tools

General discussion about the biblical fonts from SBL

Moderators: tiro_hudson, sbl_hooker

Discussion about shortcomings and limitations of the UFO format and suggestions how to correct the problems or extend the format using "custom" data.

Discussion on "font build profiles", a mechanism for a unified way to produce fonts, from source files to final font files.

The archive of the old MSN board for FontLab products

The archive of the old MSN group for Microsoft Font Validator

Moderators: Sergey Malkin (Microsoft), Si Daniels (Microsoft)

The archive of the old MSN group for Microsoft VOLT

Moderators: Sergey Malkin (Microsoft), Si Daniels (Microsoft)

The archive of the old MSN group for Microsoft VTT

Moderators: Sergey Malkin (Microsoft), Si Daniels (Microsoft)

The archive of the old MSN group for Microsoft WEFT

Moderators: Sergey Malkin (Microsoft), Si Daniels (Microsoft)

The archive of the old MSN group for SBL Fonts

Moderators: tiro_hudson, sbl_hooker

Discussion about the FontLab.com website.

Discussion about this forum itself

Feel free to talk about anything and everything that does not fit into the other categories.