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One candidate could be: Bangle Extended Bold jl1.jpg Extend the "toes" of the L and extend the "heel" of the J could get close. Add other stuff as needed. Good luck. I think if you simply expand the entire glyphs horizontally in an image program that you might have a match, not ...

I believe they have also gone through and worked on standardizing the typeface for all the CJK ideograph representative glyphs in the updated code charts.

Erwin, are there any plans to expand the functioning of this tool - eg calligraphic strokes?

Don't forget other oftentimes related n/h/r/u; v/x/y/w; and l/i/j/t. Usually, the only miniscule letters that need to be created from whole cloth are a, z, s, f, and g.

Just a quick question guys... If I were to edit a font that has been copyrighted, Does that mean I am violating the copyright law? Neither I nor anybody here is a lawyer, so take this as unofficial opinion; but as a general rule, distributing a font copyrighted by someone else is going to be agains...

according to my understanding, I believe that this Romaji transliteration method is also used for the Chinese language where they have more than 50000 glyphs. I believe it may also apply to Koreaan and other similar languages. I trust this clarifies how the Atok pad works. Actually, there are sever...

If it's truly contextual, you can actually hard code the rules into open type/graphite, and it will automatically select the right contextual glyphs. I think you are becoming the embodiment of the old axiom of every problem looking like a nail. There are lots of technical answers to alternate glyph ...

2. If a transliteration Input Method Editor method were implemented and were in use with the font, if the font were to have an alternate design of a letter t with a swash ascender design, such that that t could be used wherever the person using the font felt that it would look good, how would that ...

Can the right-hand side of a glyph substitution statement (I do not know if that is the correct parlance) in an OpenType GSUB table have more than one glyph listed within that place? No. Graphite does, however, support one-to-many and many-to-many substitutions. I believe that AAT also supports mul...

I actually have an MSKLC layout that I can use to type in any of a number of scripts: Greek, Cyrillic, Hiragana, Katakana, Runic, Ogham, Cherokee, Arabic, Hebrew, etc. The problem with any Windows IME is that they do not recognize capital letters, and I'm not even sure exactly how it works with the ...

The true type standard defines glyph outlines by quadratic bezier splines and only quadratic splines. As a true type editor, cubic splines are not supported in FCP and could not be saved anyway. On the other hand, the post script font format defines glyph outlines by cubic bezier splines, so a tool ...

Select the Tables command from the Format menu, and go to the Unsupported page. Then delete these tables if present: BASE, DSIG, GDEF, GPOS, GSUB, and JSTF. Frankly while I know people are asking for FC to support OT programming, IMHO smart font programming should be ideally done outside of a graph...

Thanks for this tip about the H. I remember having read it in the manual but it didn't register. But would any modification other than changing the RSB, even changing the LSB, lose the hinting? I thought hinting is only lost when the number of nodes in a contour changed? But could you clarify wheth...

thanks a lot but I really think that font creator should have a function for adjusting the side bearings for pairs of letters. This functionality would make font creator so much better That's exactly what kerning is. I can't believe that you don't have a program that supports kerning. It's pretty u...

The on-curve/off-curve control points are inherent to the true type font format. Cubic bezier splines cannot ever be stored in a true type font. They must be converted. So the node/handle paradigm that you are so used to - and which absolutely baffles me whenever I've tried to use it - is never goin...