Font Forum

In most software the term 'project' means a related group of files and the settings associated with that group. In Font Creator a project is a single font. It would be nice if there was a mechanism for relating a group of files and saving the files and the layout and any other settings which may pro...

Psymon wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2017 11:03 pm
I had to google what "MMORPG" meant -- showing my age, I guess.

... and I will be retiring next year.

My name is Paul James Miller. My work is as an Electronics Engineer in Medical Research, I do not wear pyjamas to work. My hobby is designing fonts (amongst other things). My first font was named 'Kelvinch' after the name of my main character on the MMORPG 'Guild Wars 2', that character is called 'K...

It would be better to have the accented characters and the combining diacritics. But just having the accented characters will be OK. If you have the combining diacritics as well the user can accent characters which have no accented character in Unicode, for instance in my wifes language they use a l...

Are you able to read/write in Cyrillic (i.e. in a language that uses it)? That's one of my problems with trying to design a font for that character set -- with the Latin character set, it's easy to come up with all sorts of words, etc. to try out to see how the letters look together, but I'm at a c...

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt! Let me tell you about Kelvinch . This was my first font, I started out totally clueless about fonts but with a lot of experience of CAD programs and designing things on a CAD system. I didn't know what characters were necessary and which weren't, so out of ins...

The combining diacritics have zero advance width and are placed after the character they are meant to accent. Without anchors they are in a fixed position which is correct for some characters but not for others, with anchors they can be made to move to the correct position for any character.

Yes I have taken a good look at 'Wickednesse', it is a good font, well done. :D My font is called 'Drumph Gothic', the basic character shapes I copied from 'The Luttrell Psalter' which is available at the British Library. For reasons of humour the font has to support Cyrillic but that became a bit o...

So the question is, how many bytes does it save and how much incompatibility does it cause ?

With hard disks and memory growing ever larger is it worth a possible incompatibility to save a few bytes ?

The diacritics are meant to be placed above the preceeding character so the placement should be such that it is in the correct position above a lower case letter preceeding it. Of course lower case letters are all different sizes and different heights and what if it is preceeded by an upper case cha...

Thankyou both for your suggestions, I have got my Validation window back without a re-installation using Erwins suggestion. However it did reset more than I was expecting, but that isn't a problem. I am happy to mess about with the registry and will save a registry entries file for each of the diffe...

Sometimes some of the toolbars get lost. At the moment the Validation toolbar is missing but it can be any of them. This only happens when I swap monitors on my laptop. It never happens on the desktop system because that has a fixed set of monitors and they never change. The laptop is used with a va...

I finally got it working. My font didn't contain any .dnom characters so I put some in, same size as the .sinf or .sups characters but resting on the baseline. The gaps before and after the fraction slash were ugly so I included a composite clone of the fraction slash with large negative bearings. A...

This is a problem I have been trying to deal with recently.

This looks good, I will copy it into 'Tobias' and see if I have any problems.

I will let you know how I get on.

I also have a High DPI screen on my laptop, it is 3200 x 1800. I have encountered the problem you describe, if it is the same problem then it can't be cured but it can be reduced. The problem is with the screen scaling factor in Windows 10. The GUI components Erwin uses on Main Type don't interact w...