Font Forum

A new version of the Poetical font, namely version 0.13 has been available on the web since 9.13 am British Summer Time (0813 GMT) this morning. This version adds no glyphs. Yesterday afternoon I started a new font, Poetical 013 in POETI013.TTF, in Font Creator 5.0 and used the glyphs from the old v...

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William

Is there a way for me to customize Font Creator 5 so that when I request a New font a number of additional characters are automatically set up please? I am seeking to add capital AE macron, small ae macron, capital Y macron and small y macron. Vowels with macron are often used in texts in the Old En...

Welcome to the forums. > Although I'm not sure where I might be able to customize ligatures such as my own "At" and plural "s", it's something to consider. The use of ligatures in fonts is an interesting topic. The way intended for the future is to use a feature known as glyph su...

I have now uploaded version 0.14 of the Chronicle font to the web.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/fonts.htm

William

Readers interested in trying the Chronicle font with some Old English may like to have a look at the New Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. http://www.buckrogers.demon.co.uk/nasc.htm I find that copying some text from the New Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and then displaying it using Wordpad with 72 point Chronicle loo...

At 8.05 pm British Summer Time this evening, about twenty minutes ago, I updated the version of my Chronicle font which is on the web to version 0.12. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/fonts.htm I completed the glyphs for the uppercase alphabet yesterday and made the publication font earlier thi...

> Apostrophes (39) and inch marks (34) are replaced in Word with “Smart Quotes” — typographical quotations marks — 66’s and 99’s. You need to add them to your font. Four smart quote characters are needed, one like a 6 in the air, one like a 9 in the air, one like a 66 in the air, one like a 99 in th...

> Is there somewhere I can get a list of what would be a normal expected set of characters for a commercial font? One such list is on the following web page. http://www.itcfonts.com/about/submit.asp?nCo=AFMT > ... is a good reference to check which characters are needed for each language. The follow...

Firstly, I do not know a lot about musical notation. However, I do find this project fascinating. Unicode has the following. http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf That is downloadable from the following web page. http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html I do not know how that relates to tho...

Version 0.14 of the Style font is now available on the web. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/fonts.htm In answering a question in the Support forum and using the Style font as an example, I noticed that the glyphs for double quotes and apostrophe were the wrong way round. http://forum.high-logi...

Yesterday evening I wrote as follows, regarding the glyphs for double quotes and apostrophe in my Style font, STYLE.TTF. > However, in testing that while writing this reply I have found that my Style font has them the wrong way round so that is something which I need to correct and issue an updated ...

> Has anyone had this kind of problem with these or other characters? Yes. Word substitutes these characters with directional quotes so that text such as "Hello" and 'Good morning' look more like the left-side and right-side versions as used in handwriting. This is resolved by adding four ...

Here are my own answers to your questions. I only have limited experience with music fonts, and then only for simple percussion music, though it was great fun! > 1. I need a lot of symbols (more than 400). How many glyphs can be allocated in a font? Thousands. > Should I split the collection into se...

> You use the term "private use area". What does this mean? It is an area of the Unicode codespace where anyone may make his or her own codepoint allocations. This has the downside that they are not unique as everyone else can also make his or her own allocations too! Indeed, people can ma...