Looking to commission a font from someone... please help!
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:57 pm
Hi! I am not looking for a typical stylized font here, rather, I need someone to help me create an "expanded" Times New Roman font with some added letters, basically letters with certain diacritics on top. The reason? I am trying to type up some stuff using my own system of Romanized Chinese in various dialects, and only Mandarin is fully supported in fonts like Times New Roman.
Please name this font "Pan-Chinese Pinyin."
Basically, in addition to retaining all the usual stuff in Times New Roman, I need the following letter+diacritic combinations:
A, a, E, e, I, i, O, o, U, u, M, m, N, n, Y, y
each of the above using each of the following diacritics:
macron, vertical macron (short vertical line on top of letter), acute accent, grave accent, caron, circumflex, hook, ring, tilde, umlaut.
Also, I need a "N" that is small sized like "n."
Altogether, that's 161 shapes/characters/glyphs (I'm not familiar with the terminology). Don't forget about the default characters in Times New Roman. Some of these may be already encoded.
It would be nice if there was a way to type it so that for example, press "A" then "~" then you get an A with a tilde, but if that's too hard it's okay.
If FontCreator isn't the right program to create this font, please inform me about other programs that would be able to accomplish this. This font would be a very useful tool for many people as many dialects of Chinese do not have an efficiently designed and systematic way of transcribing sounds into the Roman alphabet.
Thank you for helping!
Pinyinviola
Please name this font "Pan-Chinese Pinyin."
Basically, in addition to retaining all the usual stuff in Times New Roman, I need the following letter+diacritic combinations:
A, a, E, e, I, i, O, o, U, u, M, m, N, n, Y, y
each of the above using each of the following diacritics:
macron, vertical macron (short vertical line on top of letter), acute accent, grave accent, caron, circumflex, hook, ring, tilde, umlaut.
Also, I need a "N" that is small sized like "n."
Altogether, that's 161 shapes/characters/glyphs (I'm not familiar with the terminology). Don't forget about the default characters in Times New Roman. Some of these may be already encoded.
It would be nice if there was a way to type it so that for example, press "A" then "~" then you get an A with a tilde, but if that's too hard it's okay.
If FontCreator isn't the right program to create this font, please inform me about other programs that would be able to accomplish this. This font would be a very useful tool for many people as many dialects of Chinese do not have an efficiently designed and systematic way of transcribing sounds into the Roman alphabet.
Thank you for helping!
Pinyinviola