Font Forum

There is a discussion in the Unicode mailing list about variation selectors for use in transcribing Old Polish documents. The thread started on Monday 16 July 2018. http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2018-m07/0034.html There are at present various posts in that thread, including one in a s...

I emailed an expert yesterday and have received a prompt and very thorough reply.

Both emails, name redacted but otherwise exact transcripts, are now in the Serif forum thread that was mentioned in the previous post.

William

Thank you.

I noticed this thread in the Serif forum.

PDF Problem using variable font

https://community.serif.com/forum/pagep ... iable-font

William

I remembered this thread today as a result of reading the following post in the Unicode Mailing List. https://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2018-m02/0179.html I seem to remember suggesting somewhere that FFFE could be assigned as decoration colour 1 and FFFD could be assigned as decoration c...

Firstly, I do not have Word 2016 or the other software packages that you mention. Also I am using FontCreator 8. I am using Windiws 10. So I cannot directly try the problem here. However, it might be that I can help with the underlying problem and you could if you wish then try the suggestion and te...

I have only just noticed this thread. Erwin wrote: > Nothing fancy as we're going to invest a week in something that is requested by a single person :? Ah, but you also receive my admiration for being responsive to customer need. There are also second order effects to consider. There may be people l...

There is now a specific thread about the topic in the Serif forum.

https://community.serif.com/discussion/ ... -of-leiden

William

Quite by chance earlier today I learned of the wall poems of Leiden. Leiden is a city in The Netherlands. Here is a link to the poems, poems that use a variety of fonts. http://www.muurgedichten.nl/tsvetajeva.html The story of how I learned of this is in the following thread in the forum of Serif, a...

I wanted to try to look at the Bahnschrift font uisng ViewHex to try to follow how the fvar table and other tables are constructed in the variable font. So I tried to make a copy of the font from the Fonts directory to another folder so as not to risk spoiling the original, but I cannot seem to be a...

Hi Erwin > I've noticed you've already received answers to your questions. Well, answers to some of them. I have found the following web pages. https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/otvaroverview.htm https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/fvar.htm They are within the OpenType specificatio...

I have found the following web page.

https://github.com/Microsoft/OpenTypeDe ... dOnAxes.md

I have found it very helpful.

It is linked from the following web page.

https://github.com/Microsoft/OpenTypeDe ... onAxisTags

William

Hi Erwin Thank you for your reply. I have made a post to the OpenType list - in fact I sent it twice because I thought that it had not worked. Later I found both versions in a spam folder. Oops. Anyway, did you get a copy from the OpenType list or has it gone to your spam folder or maybe just gone? ...

A few days ago I learned of the existence of variable fonts. There was a post in the OpenType mailing list. I have redacted the names of his two colleagues that he names as they were published in a closed mailing list. In my talk at ATypI (video herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pef_yujD4eM&t=...

On Wednesday 21 September 2016 I published Chapter 19 of my novel. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_chapter_019.pdf In order to produce that chapter I made a special experimental font. LOCSE936.TTF This was started from a copy of LOCSE034.TTF, a font produced by ...

communication_through_the_language_barrier.png I produced the image using Serif DrawPlus X5 software and by adapting an image included in the DrawPlus X5 Gallery. The handwriting font is Annie BTN and the main text font is Goudita SF. Link to the relevant code chart: http://www.unicode.org/charts/P...