Font Forum

I ran disk repair utilities etc with no success.

I became fed up with the whole matter and chose instead to rename
the font and the font file and abandon the old files.

Still if anyone who understands windows fonts has an
explanation I'd be interested to hear it!

Mike

I downloaded the Font properties extension, version 2.1 from http://www.microsoft.com/typography/TrueTypeProperty21.mspx A left click on the installed font opens the advanced properties page giving me the new version number for the font. A right click on the installed font gives me the OLD version n...

This appears to be a Windows 98 problem (maybe). For months I have been successfully doing the following: a) Delete my font in C:/WINDOWS/FONTS b) Wait till seen to disappear in Windows Explorer c) Install my font from FCP d) Double click on it when it appears in c:/WINDOWS/FONTS e) Observe visible ...

Dave,
The problem I described is on the Macintosh which doesn't have
a right button!

DOES ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW HOW TO USE THE
FONT DOWNLOAD ON A MACINTOSH ?

Mike

My friends with Macintosh machines tell me they "get gibberish"
when they try the download.
Can I do something to the font to correct this?

Mike

I have developed a Hebrew font. You can read about it and view some examples on http://mikethompsonpaintings.com/font . (You don't have to have the font on your machine to look at these examples as they are JPG files.) You can download my font "Mike Hebrew" by clicking on http://forum.high...

BEARINGS. I looked at a number of common latin fonts such as Arial. Most characters have the left bearing at x=0. Also most characters have quite a bit of space on between the left bearing and the left edge of the glyph. Also there is a similar amount of space between the right bearing and the right...

I wanted to use kerning to get the characters to overlap, however I now realize that I can use left and right bearings to acheive this. Kerning seems best for dealing with special cases such as "T." however the overlap I'm interested in is nearly always present. See http://mikethompsonpain...

I added kerning to my font using [Format]->[Kerning]
but it does not show after installing the font.
I installed and displayed the font with The Font Thing.

Can kerning be disabled in some way?

Mike Thompson
http://mikethompsonpaintings.com

No replies! maybe that means there are no answers to my question so I have been doing some research myself. http://mikethompsonpaintings.com/stroke_test.gif In the above example, I have made a single test character consisting of five stroke at angles 130, 120, 110, 98 and 95 degrees. Then I displaye...

I'm developing a font with no vertical or horizontal lines. Guidelines are great! I use a pair of guideline for either side of the stroke. Based purely on my scanned and imported bitmaps of hand-drawn glyphs, these strokes are at the following angles: 170, 98, 20 I case you are trying to visualize t...

I would like to build my characters from components with the components in the samples toolbar. I would cut the characters from actual glyphs, polish them a bit and then use them as widely as possible. The problem is that small components look like a list of ill-defined dots and I can't tell which i...