Font Forum

I have very limited knowledge about creating fonts, but I do create handwriting fonts out of handwriting submissions via Scanahand and then edit those fonts in FontCreator. I'm having an issue with some fonts being rejected when the user is attempting to upload them into a specific Apple App that ac...

That did it!! I'm doing a happy dance

I'm working on a cursive font from someone's handwriting - and it's requiring A LOT of kerning pairs to get the joins right. The problem I'm running into is when there are multiple kerning pairs in one word, side-by-side . The first one works, the second is ignored. For instance if 'love' is the wor...

Got it to work! On EXPORT settings - Custom GSUB table was set to Custom Script. Why - I don't know. Once I changed it to Default Script - it worked!

Thanks again Bhikkhu for your kind help! It is much appreciated

Thank you so much for your quick reply! Seriously - I would bring you cookies if I could :) I would love to take the time to dive in and learn all this, and will eventually - but I just don't have that luxury right now. I have a deadline, and I just had NO idea the learning curve with this new versi...

I just upgraded to 8.0 from 7.5 and I'm thinking I've made a HUGE mistake. I've been taking handwriting and turning it into a .ttf for several years for clients and I've never had any problem kerning. I see that's all been changed with the Open Type Designer. I thought I had it all figured out - I'l...