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You can use different symbols — not different colours: ☹☺☻

That's not possible. Truetype fonts are strictly monochrome.

Use a desktop publishing program or word-processor to add coloured fills and outlines to text.

Yes. Selecting the glyph (in the glyph overview) and pressing delete would delete the glyph from the font entirely and remove its mappings, make empty merely deletes the contours it contains. If you select the contours in the glyph edit window and press delete, that doesn't affect the side-bearings,...

The Free Draw Tool is new in FontCreator 6.5. It is available in both the Professional Edition and the Home Edition. Free Draw.png When the Free Draw tool is selected from the Drawing Toolbar the Free Draw dialogue appears and any existing contours are greyed out. The brush width can be changed on ...

Truetype fonts don't have any "native" point size. They are scalable vectors. Changing the funits/em value will make no difference at all. What you can do is scale the glyphs down by about 75% using the glyph transform wizard (Professional Edition) or the Transform toolbar (Home Edition) s...

Maybe you toggled it off with the icon to the left of the Font Preview drop list?

Here is a screen shot of the unsupported tables in an OpenType *.otf font. As you can see, the GSUB tables are still present. Since you're only modifying an accent I don't envisage there will be any problems. Check in Tools, Options, Font, that FontCreator is not set to strip any tables on loading, ...

They alter the z-order of the contours. I have used them occasionally when editing nodes with the keyboard. The z-order will determine which contour is selected with shortcut keys. Contour 0 will be selected first with the W (Next Contour/Node) shortcut. Say that you're editing the letter B, which h...

The font has restricted license embedding but is available freely from the author's page at Typoasis.

Thanks Dick, that's the one.

What font is this?

This is the easiest method to add OpenType features.

Adding OpenType Features

My averages for three runs were 82, 85, then 93.

I tried the test several times when this thread was first posted. Then my highest average was 91.

Mike Thompson wrote:Thanks vannisaac,
I see I could use this to make a Q from an O!
Mike

I just draw the extra stroke, then use Get Union of Contours, but that's not available in the Home Edition. Its very useful for building glyphs from pieces of other glyphs, e.g. p + l = Þ or O + / = Ø.

I tried changing my message box font from Verdana 10 to Tahoma 8, but it didn't make any difference.

I still cannot read the entire message on the Font Installation wizard dialogue. ... even when you are just ... what? Click Back if you want ... to what?