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by timza
Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:46 pm
Forum: Type Design
Topic: What Unicode Characters to Include for most Latin alphabets
Replies: 6
Views: 15215

What Unicode Characters to Include for most Latin alphabets

I like typewriters and clean typewriter looking fonts. I think the Courier New Regular font is a little light, and the Bold is too dark. I found a font named Courier Prime that I like because it is a little ticker than Courier New Regular, and it was created under the SIL Open Font License that allo...
by timza
Sat Dec 20, 2014 11:38 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
Topic: how are .alt glyphs used?
Replies: 3
Views: 4229

Re: how are .alt glyphs used?

Thank you. Helps me a lot. I am going to have four punctuation styles, with each having normal, italic, bold, and italic bold, so I will have sixteen files.

Lions and tigers and bears. Oh my!

Tim.
by timza
Sat Dec 20, 2014 11:32 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
Topic: normal, italic, bold in the same font file
Replies: 2
Views: 8135

Re: normal, italic, bold in the same font file

Excellent reply. Thank you. I am in. I have been planning on four files. I like your Kabala Petite Capitals. Tim.
by timza
Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:14 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
Topic: how are .alt glyphs used?
Replies: 3
Views: 4229

how are .alt glyphs used?

I am looking at a font file inside Font Creator that includes glyphs that have a .alt in their name. The .alt glyphs also have non .alt versions, like for example comma, then comma.alt1, then comma.alt2. How are these used? I do not use Adobe Illustrator, so I am thinking that maybe this is somethin...
by timza
Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:56 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
Topic: normal, italic, bold in the same font file
Replies: 2
Views: 8135

normal, italic, bold in the same font file

New here. First post. I use Windows. Some of the font files I install come with multiple files (maybe in a zip file) for normal, italic, bold, and italic bold, and others come with one file. Sometimes when I use the fonts that have been installed with one file, I notice that italic, bold, and italic...