Font Forum

Bhikkhu Pesala you brought it up ... The UnicodeData.txt document includes many extra columns of stuff. For example: 00AB;LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK;Pi;0;ON;;;;;Y;LEFT POINTING GUILLEMET;*;;; I recognize some of the fields: unicode hex number, unicode name, and alternative unicode nam...

I'm really stretching to say anything about this -- but I hate to see a question without a response... 1. Fonts may be formed by combining diacritic marks with letters. These include: grave, acute, caron, cedilla, macron, etc. You may also use multiple diacritic marks to create a single character, s...

That's an extensive list for "school" unfortunately all the SchoolBook fonts are straight text/serif Times New Roman-types. Not exactly hand written scripts. Ones I have which may be more appropriate sorted alphabetically include: --Ajoanhand (which I got from jowaco) is very nice and clea...

Hmmm My version of Black Chancery by Cambridge Fontworks had EHIWY which were very much shorter than the remainder of the upper case. The tops were all aligned for numbers and upper case, they just stopped before reaching the base.... It's a rather nice design in all. With only 114 glyphs drawn it d...

Welcome to the wonder world of fonts. I don't know all the answers to your query, but I do know some pieces that may start you off easier. 1. You add characters or glyphs to font sets and not individually as I read. Open the font you wish to deal with (Arial here) into FCP. There is a True Type vers...

I'm always amazed when someone asks for an opinion on a subject I know very little! Much of what I'm suggesting may be extraneous to your task. 1. Since you apparently have a finite number of elements, maybe you could base your design on a "composite" approach such as the (O between two ar...

This hole (sic) business of font copyrighting and font authorship doesn't seem very honorable. There is a strange precedent used in the Font Business where ownership apparently is based on who last publishes the font. Is there such a thing as "prior art" on fonts? Does copyright info in a ...

I am not experienced in building Symbol fonts so the following may not be that helpful. I have had problems dealing with Symbol fonts when the platforms/ mapping/ naming is messed. I haven't had a problem where eventually I couldn't shoot enough "alternatives" at it to get it to work. Ofte...

Looking at ATEP site's freely available font, Memo.ttf, it had 399 defined glyphs, same as your Ice'n-Gothic Bold of which only 222 had characters drawn. Running FCP validate corrected 218 glyphs leaving 21 which needed further manual intervention. Those characteristics seem very much the same genea...

I've not done any font design, but from what I've heard: It is easier to scan a font and make "small" corrections than to try and design the font on the computer. Seeing cursive fonts where each glyph has hundreds of points it is obviously not done by hand. Even making minor "correcti...

I have little real knowledge only experience. When I find a font which has too much (or too little) space between lines I will adjust only (Format/ Settings.../ Windows) Win Ascent or Win Descent values up to the point just before a character may be clipped. The steps are: 1. Run a Font Test (F5) to...

Welcome to the FCP world! It's going to be more helpful to read the manual I'm afraid than try to follow the following. There are two types of errors (sorta) - contour and points. Contour errors are easier to fix but point errors are basic and you might need to address them eventually in order to fi...

Hello rolfengelbrecht, I too had yearned to change the sequence of glyphs to an order I felt more rational. I too found no solution, so I learned to live with it! After awhile the consistent randomness of the presentation becomes familiar and you begin to see patterns: ..., 0-9, ..., A-Z, ..., a-z, ...

Erwin - thanks.

I also found the same problem on small letter w. Found (!) and deleted hidden point and the problem cleared up Nicely ... Now I am smarter too. I guess.

Dick

Pia Frauss did an awful lot of work in designing those fonts. I didn't have validation problems with any of them. Perhaps they have been changed since she originally posed the problem. The complex character was perfect as is. I am running Win XP Pro on Dell Pentium 4, 1.4gb cpu. 120gb disk - 30gb fr...