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Hello, I have been looking at making a multi coloured glyph but I cannot get into the method. Do you have a tutorial with video to show on this? If not perhaps I am just missing some small points. 1. I open an edit window and go to colour mode 2. choose a letter by pressing + in the box on the left....

You might also be interested in looking at Cadman a free dyslexic font. Yes I just looked at cadman font I haven't seen it before is it new? Mine has similar features for dyslexics - balanced spaces round the letters and no two letters alike and lots of extra greek and maths glyphs. Style is very d...

Thanks for the link - very helpful I am now going through presenting my font to myfonts.com

I have finished a font for dyslexic readers and would like to publish it on the general market. I have High-logic 11.5 and have run the optical metrics and run the kerning. and Done the legals like license etc. Is there anything else I should be checking like the tables at the back. Do I just approa...

Thank you I found it!

Hello Team,

I want to publish my font on my website but when I gave my web designer WOFF1 fonts, she said she needed WOFF2 as well. How do I get WOFF 2 files?

Thanks
Anne

I have just finished a dyslexia friendly font and noticed that while I have drawn the glyphs with a mix of the corner and (square) and rounded (circle) nodes arial and times new roman and comic sans only use the square node when a corner is absolutely unavoidable. I have redone the latin alphabet sm...

I have several fractions I have added to my font as well as the four or five normal ones. But I need to learn how to access them and if they need a tables look up how to do that. Do you know where I can find the information. I only understand the drawing side of a font at present. Although I have us...

Hello Bhikkhu, I have done some more kerning in the type designer but when I run the test font screen none of the changes show. :( :( :( Also can you define for me what 'that script' in item 8 of your action list. ( 8.Export that script and give it a suitable name, e.g. "gsub_cankama.otlfd"...

Hello, OK I have some of the scripts showing in the Open type designer. I now have two questions on the import. I imported the kerning pairs and auto kerned as per your instructions. then I was unsure what 'that script ' was so I just clicked at the top and imported everything I could see and re did...

Thank you.
I will get going on that and post my results when I'm done
Anne

Hello, Thanks for the informative reply. I have opened Ariel Normal and the scripts and lookups are all there. So maybe I had a finished font open when I upgraded. I want to look at the kerning of each pair and alter them by hand where necessary. I have printed off the manual but not found how to im...

If scripts were created in the background in Font Creator 4 Yes, otherwise no. . I used as my base a font I had done in 2003 with font creator 4. Type Designer wasn't in there then. Is there any info on what exactly a script consists of and how to format one. It still confuses me that the font came ...

Hello I have the font projects I am working on loaded into Font creator fine and I can use font creator until I open type designer - when I open type designer the font is not in the screen that comes up nor is there the option to click on the Scripts features or lookups there is nothing there. Do I ...

I have the font I am working on loaded into font creator 8. When I first opened Type Designer it said upgrade to use, so I did and the font populated the screen of the type designer immediately. However since then it has not come up when I open the type designer and I cannot find how to get it into ...