Font Forum

Hey, Voyager, I completely understand wanting to just jump in and do stuff; that is my preferred method. However, creating fonts is a little more complex than one might suspect. Trust me, reading/watching a few tutorials will go a long way in shedding light on this subject and they might even inspir...

In the arabtype.ttf font you've mentioned, I find the "Arabic letter lam with small v" glyph at (uni06B5) and that glyph is also listed in the OpenType "InitialForms" (init) single substitution list, the "MedialForms" (medi) single substitution list and in the "Ter...

I noticed that under MainType's font information box, under General, the classification is Serif for each of the Caladea fonts except for the Italic font which is shown as Undefined. Panose Values: Regular____2-4-5-3-5-4-6-3-2-4 Italic______2-0-5-6-0-0-0-2-0-0 < ? Bold_______2-4-5-3-5-4-6-3-2-4 Bold...

I was able to duplicate what Erwin reported: when I deleted all of the Caladea fonts except the Regular and then exited and restarted MainType, the Caladea Regular did indeed display as Regular. However, after I re-installed only the Caladea Italic, both MainType and FontCreator again displayed both...

Since changing the Caladea BoldItalic font to the BoldItalic subfamily did not correct my situation, I uninstalled all four Caladea files and re-installed the original files. With FontCreator I verified that the BoldItalic file was still marked as being in the in the Italic subfamily which was thoug...

The file listing displayed when opening an installed font in FontCreator now looks correct Caladea Listing02.png However, when Claldea Regular or Claldea Italic is selected, they both display the font name in italic Caladea Listing03.png and when Caladea Bold or Caladea BoldItalic is selected Calade...

Well well well, I was able to uninstall Caladea after all, using your MainType program … However, uninstalling all except the regular did not change the regular listing so I deleted that one also and then installed my corrected file along with the three other originals … all to no effect!

Erwin, my little pea brain is having a tough time understanding the problem as you have stated it. I was able to confirm with FontCreator Pro version 11.5.0.2427 that the installed font file named caladea-bolditalic.ttf was identified internally as belonging to the subfamily Italic rather than Bold ...

Thanks for suggesting MainType, it seems to provide what I was looking for and much much more. However, right off the bat, I experienced some strangeness using MainType 8.0 … The Caladea font listed in MainType jumped out at me because there was no regular listed, only italic , bold and bold italic ...

I just learned that Libre Office now supports Open Type features. To my knowledge, the "support" is rather manual at this time; that is, the user must create font tags himself, modifying the font name by adding a colon followed by the four character code for the desired feature. For exampl...

You must be right, Erwin … $2E12 or hypodiastolḗ seems to be an early Greek comma if you will. For kicks, I set the bearings to -50 and 50 and it looks to be better positioned to act as a comma. And, it was removed from the Outline Issues list. Funny, I would not think of the bearings as an outline ...

What I don't understand is that even after "fixing" the two glyphs with Outline Issues in the Cardo font mentioned above, they still show up in the Troubleshooting collection as having Outline Issues. Both glyphs had extreme off-curve points which FontCreator resolved by adding on-curve po...

If your font does not contain the characters which comprise the name of the font, the font may appear as a blank line in the list of fonts presented by the word processor.

Man, Jonne, that is a nice looking font you have there ... well done!

FYI: After scanning again with updated virus and spyware definitions and finding nothing, I instructed Windows Defender to allow the "Trojan" but the dll was deleted anyway upon re-booting. It also removed the registry entry: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\SHARE...