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by William
Sat Jul 06, 2019 4:07 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Localizable Sentences Experiment font support
Replies: 111
Views: 3190531

Re: Localizable Sentences Experiment font support

Here is a font with two symbols in it. They are my own designs. They are for Hi! and Bye!. They are intended for informal communication through the language barrier. I have been using the symbols in the following thread to produce a design for a tote bag. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/...
by William
Thu May 23, 2019 3:22 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: FontCreator 8 used in futuristic experiment
Replies: 3
Views: 9968

Re: FontCreator 8 used in futuristic experiment

There has been a development in that the following document has been published yesterday. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19203-wd-uts51-17-draft.pdf I refer to Annex C.2 of that document. In that section the use of U+1F194 SQUARED ID is suggested as the base character for QID emoji. I have thought...
by William
Fri Apr 05, 2019 7:37 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: FontCreator 8 used in futuristic experiment
Replies: 3
Views: 9968

Re: FontCreator 8 used in futuristic experiment

Ah, well it seems to still be there, but it seems that one may need to be registered to download it. However, I logged off and tried and I got a different message from the one that you got. However, no problem, I am attaching the font here. [Note of 2019-04-06 Saturday A new version of the font has ...
by William
Fri Apr 05, 2019 5:46 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Number of possible characters in a substitution statement
Replies: 5
Views: 4222

Re: Number of possible characters in a substitution statement

I have just made a test font with the following substitution using sixteen characters at the left-side of the substitution statement and it works well in Affinity Publisher. Here is the substitution statement. sub uniEFF8 uE0031 uE0032 uE0033 uE0034 uE0035 uE0036 uE0037 uE0038 uE0039 uE0030 uE0031 u...
by William
Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:20 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Number of possible characters in a substitution statement
Replies: 5
Views: 4222

Re: Number of possible characters in a substitution statement

I'll take a look at the limit if you try to exceed 32000 glyphs :lol: It is not a matter of how many glyphs are in the font, it is a matter of how many characters can be listed in the left-side of a sub statement. For example, if it is fifteen then all is well for this usage, if it is ten then ther...
by William
Fri Apr 05, 2019 2:57 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Number of possible characters in a substitution statement
Replies: 5
Views: 4222

Number of possible characters in a substitution statement

You may have noticed the following thread. https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7941 This question arises from that experiment but there is no need to read that thread in relation to this question, it is just the reason why I am asking. In that font I used a liga glyph substitution ...
by William
Thu Apr 04, 2019 3:22 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: FontCreator 8 used in futuristic experiment
Replies: 3
Views: 9968

FontCreator 8 used in futuristic experiment

Today I made a font using FontCreator version 8 and it works a treat. Gold star to FontCreator. The story is in the following thread. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/82885-can-you-find-the-white-crested-tiger-heron/ Two high class software programs and a good result. The font is at...
by William
Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:22 am
Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
Topic: Should I delete all my empty glyphs?
Replies: 8
Views: 10932

Re: Should I delete all my empty glyphs?

> ... maybe just copy/paste the .notdef glyph into each of those unused slots. Yes, that would be a good idea. Keeping the cells in the font also has the advantage that should you at some future time want to add to the capabilities of a particular font, the cells would be already there in place rath...
by William
Sat Feb 23, 2019 10:11 am
Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
Topic: Should I delete all my empty glyphs?
Replies: 8
Views: 10932

Re: Should I delete all my empty glyphs?

However, if you do delete all the unused Private Use Area (PUA) cells that each contain nothing, then if some user of your font uses one of those PUA code points then the Windows operating system might insert a Japanese character. So as you wrote: > In each of my fonts I have tons and tons of empty ...
by William
Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:45 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Italicizer Maquette font
Replies: 7
Views: 13538

Re: Italicizer Maquette font

> Why not just use the italics button on your word processor it's much simpler.

Because this is about plain text not rich text as is used in a word processor program to store information about when to use italics.

William
by William
Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:56 am
Forum: Specification
Topic: Colour fonts - SVG and CPAL and COLR
Replies: 9
Views: 15600

Re: Colour fonts - SVG and CPAL and COLR

> I do not think the palette is actually stored in a font.

One or more colour palettes are stored in the font of a CPAL COLR font, it is the CPAL table.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typogr ... /spec/cpal

William
by William
Sun Feb 03, 2019 3:43 pm
Forum: Specification
Topic: Colour fonts - SVG and CPAL and COLR
Replies: 9
Views: 15600

Re: Colour fonts - SVG and CPAL and COLR

Hi Mike Thank you for replying. ... be able to alter the color palettes of such fonts (which may be impossible, but ya never know) ... It would seem to be very easy to alter the CPAL/COLR specification to allow for this, though I have not done it so I cannot be sure. At present, colour FFFF can be u...
by William
Sat Feb 02, 2019 5:29 pm
Forum: Specification
Topic: Colour fonts - SVG and CPAL and COLR
Replies: 9
Views: 15600

Colour fonts - SVG and CPAL and COLR

Alas, I have not kept up to date with OpenType developments. I asked about colour font support for the Serif Affinity Publisher program, and a recent post seems to suggest that SVG rather than the CPAL and COLR format is the thing now. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/78185-will-aff...
by William
Sat Jan 12, 2019 4:09 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Italicizer Maquette font
Replies: 7
Views: 13538

Re: Italicizer Maquette font

As a result of reading the following post in the thread in the Unicode mailing list, http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2019-m01/0038.html I have made a version of the font that uses Variation Selector 14. Here is the OpenType code. script latn { # Latin feature StandardLigatures1; } featu...