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Fonts with an open contours are meant to be used on CNC engraving machines and when used with such machines they work properly. If you use a font with open contours in normal applications like word processors or desktop publishing then the rendering program cannot process these glyphs and this resul...

The 'standard' space character at $20 is inserted automatically by many programs where the program designer thought it appropriate. If it isn't blank then the glyph will appear. There are a variety of other spaces of various widths in the 'General Punctuation' block at $2000 to $200A but these shoul...

The font files in the game 'Skyrim' are in .SWF format. I wish to replace one of them with my own version of the font.

I know flash is dead but this game still has lots of resources in .SWF format, including the fonts and if I want to replace one I have to use the format the game is expecting.

I need to convert a font I have made into .SWF format. There are various online converters which claim to do this but I have yet to find one that actually works. I could buy Adobe Illustrator but that would be hideously expensive just to convert one font. Does anyone have any thoughts on how this mi...

Of course it is OK :D If I had wanted to stop people from using it as a starting point for derivative works I would have put it under a different license. Please feel free to use any of my fonts as a stepping stone to bigger and better things. And that goes for everyone else as well. Enjoy ! 8)

It's not being kind, it is implicit in the license.

William, I assume that being a member of this forum you have access to a font editor. Balgruf is licensed under the SIL Open Font License which means you can download it and edit the font as much as you want, you can add any characters you like and make any modifications you like. But if you make an...

Some while ago a well meaning friend got me a book because he knew I was into fonts. ' Just my Type ' by Simon Garfield isn't really about typeface design just examples of various typefaces and their usage. It sits on my bookshelf unread, once or twice I have taken a quick look through it but I doub...

In Skyrim the game by Bethesda Jarl Balgruuf the Greater is the Imperial Jarl of Whiterun and resides in Dragonsreach. Balgruf is a similar but different name but implies a connection with the game Skyrim. It has deliberately been spelled differently. It does not contain the characters wynn and yogh...

In the Font Creator manual do a search for 'Complete Composites' and read that section.

From the ' Tools ' menu select ' Sort Glyphs ' then select which order you want them in. ' Unicode Code Points ' and ' Design mode ' are the two most useful but for your purpose you want to sort by ' Unicode Code Points '. When you have the glyphs in order right click on category under the ' Unicode...

Balgruf is a sort of old style calligraphic script. As a typographer playing Skyrim by Bethesda I was annoyed by the font used in the books. The upper case 'F' seemed to have been cobbled together from other bits of the font and didn't fit with the aesthetic of the rest of the letters in the font, ...

Having done a couple of experiments chamfering, beveling and filleting are quite easy to do manually. I believed this was the case but I hadn't really given it that much thought before. For instance if you wanted to fillet the junction between two lines you would place am on-curve point some distanc...

Chamfer and bevel tools are available on most CAD systems and might be useful. In fact Erwin might care to cast an eye over the drawing tools available in LibreCAD, it might spark some new ideas.

I had imagined something like the projects in KiCAD . KiCAD is an electronics CAD system where you can design Schematics (circuit diagrams) and PCBs (printed circuit boards) so you can have various types of file. A Project consists of all the files related to a specific thing (I was trying to think ...