Font Forum

But when is it close enough to be a copy? When designing Kelvinch I went for a conventional look, and I did copy features I liked in other fonts (not by copy and paste but by hand and eye). The tail of capital Q comes from your very own Balava font but it also resembles some commercial Baskerville f...

This suggestion is not really a big deal as there is a good workaround which I often use (at least since discovering it in Bhikkhu's excellent videos). If you copy the problem glyphs to the preview pane (select them and press 'P') then you can click on the glyph in the preview pane and that glyph is...

I wasn't thinking of tagging glyphs whilst editing, just of having some visible indication of their tagged status whilst scanning through them with ALT ->.

It would be nice if there could be an indication in the edit window if a glyph has been tagged. It only needs to be small and subtle, something like a line of the same colour as the tag in the tab at the top of the edit window or something gets changed to be the same colour as the tag. Preferably no...

Another thing is Anchors. I followed your suggestion of looking at Times New Roman and I see that Anchors can be placed in glyphs and Diacritical marks can be positioned relative to a particular anchor in a glyph allowing for the position of the mark to be changed from one glyph to another. But. It'...

When viewing glyphs in Open Type Designer some of them appear black and some appear red, what is the difference?

What criterion decides the colour of the characters in Open Type Designer?

Yes I have seen the earlier thread but selecting the glyphs as search results in the left hand pane of the program window would be an alternative to making the validation report non-modal and might be considered by some to be more useful. One could select the problem glyph from the search results wh...

If one selects 'Used by ...' from the context menu of a glyph then selects one of the characters displayed then a new item appears in the list to the left of the screen entitled 'Search "#nnn" ' with the selected glyph. When one validates a font it comes up with a list of glyphs which stil...

I watched your videos. I have worked through your example of adding stacking fractions to a font and that worked, sort of, I got to the point where I realised that it would work if I had suitable glyphs in my font. I have added ligatures and discresionary ligatures, and kerning pairs (not using the ...

Bhikkhu's tutorials are excellent and his YouTube channel is extremely good.

However.

I still think that the official documentation could do with being a little more complete.

Sometimes I like it quiet but other times I like some music on. But not music with words, that would be distracting. I think the best background music for most intellectual activities is either classical music or Tangerine Dream ( https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tangerine+dream+full+alb...

I had fervently hoped that some of the people who are experts at font design who frequent this forum could answer your question as I would also be extremely interested in the answer ... but alas nobody stepped up to the plate ... ... Oh well ... ... shame on you ... I will provide some information i...

I followed the link and read the post but I don't understand the discrepancy between what is being said and my own experience. If Optical Metrics only processes the characters :- abc..xyz ABC..XYZ 0123456789 !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@©€ Then the runtime should be constant assuming all those cha...

Optical Metrics processes a very large number of glyphs, but not all of them. I don't know how it decides which ones to do, if there is a preset list of glyphs it will process or what it does. On Kelvinch it takes a long time, this is not a complaint, it has a lot to do, I understand why it takes a ...

Optical Metrics does not set the bearings of the whole font, just a large number of them, others are left unchanged, at least that is how I understand it to work, please correct me if I am wrong. But the algorithm must take the shape of the glyph into account, I can imagine the capital letter 'A' wi...