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One further constraint if you are doing ' real ' neon signs (i.e. glass tubes filled with noble gasses with a flourescent substance coating the inside) is that one stroke cannot split in two like at the top of the 'T' and the junction of the 'Y' it has to be two strokes, there can only be one path f...

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

The automatically generated features of version 12 are great, but it seems they are not complete. For most of the OpenType features it doesn't matter if they affect each other because they will probably not be applied in combination, however 'tabular numbers' and 'fractions' are one combination that...

I think they work best when aligned with the visual centre. I don't know about all fonts, but here is how it works best for standard body text fonts like Pali. Geometric Centre for C Pali Italic Drag a vertical guide to the centre, and rotate by the italic angle about the centre. The left guide is ...

I have also noticed this. The positioning of anchors on some glyphs is not in an optimal position. This only happens with asymetrical glyphs but is especially noticable on 'C', 'G' and 'c', I guess estimating the optical centre is difficult. The diacritics over these glyphs look as though they are g...

I have just put together a quick font which started out as a bet. Just one style (no italic or bold).

It is called 'Daniel Jaques'. It is a display font for titling and signage rather than body text.

Have fun !

Bhikkhu Pesala wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:17 am

Yet another verification of Murphy's Law.

Hmm ... I did manage to reproduce what I had done, and with some improvements. But I must admit that I did curse the program at the time.

This is the first time I have had this happen with FC 12 but it has happened before on other versions, very intermittently and I was not able to reproduce it.

The only difference this time was the large number of unsaved changes.

After making many unsaved changes to a font I am working on I did a simple union of contours and the program stopped (not responding), I thought it might be taking it's time so I left it for a while, enough time for me to go to the kitchen and make a cup of tea then return to the study. The program ...

You are correct, auto metrics does adjust the positions of the anchors when adjusting the side bearings of the glyph. I have just done another experiment. Sorry for posting this spurious request.

I am still coming to terms with all the differences in FC 12.

Auto Metrics adjusts side bearings but doesn't reposition anchors. Anchor positioning and anchor repositioning makes a good attempt at positioning the anchors and on the whole does a good job but gets some of them in positions which are close but not optimal. When they have been manually repositione...

It would be nice if when Auto Metrics adjusts the left side bearing of a glyph it adjusted the positions of the Anchors by the same amount. For instance if it reduces the LSB of a particular glyph by 42 it then adds -42 to the positions of the anchors so they are in the same position relative to the...

Language changes slowly but continuously over time and adjacent languages affect each other. It is a continuous spectrum rather than distinct colours as words and ways of expressing onesself do not respect cultural or political borders. Also those who view a language from outside a culture have a di...

I have a question about these macinations with the IJ digraph being made acute.

Do they apply to Flemish as well as standard Dutch?

Are there any problems which might be caused by having two instances of Font Creator running at the same time ? I have had two instances of Font Creator running at the same time with different font projects open in each and it caused no apparent problems but I just thought I would check just to be s...