Hi, I’m very new to font creation so maybe someone here can help me. I have a font that I think looks very nice, but the only problem is that at certain sizes such as size 9, the font appears to change into a different font (it doesn’t appear the same as size 8 and size 10 for example).
I’m guessing that this font somehow doesn’t have size 9 “defined” so Windows is replacing it with another font when I switch to size 9? I wonder if there is a way to correct this problem with Font Creator so my font can display properly at “unsupported sizes” (such as size 9). Any help is greatly appreciated.
True type fonts are not defined by point size. Scaling is continuous, so it must be something else.
Did you create the font, or is it from another source? If it’s from another source, what you’re seeing could be the impact of the “black art” of hinting.
This can be tested in FC by editing the font and selecting Format/Tables/Remove Hinting. This gets rid of the hinting tables and often cleans up fonts which change at different sizes.
Save the font with a different file name (or do a temporary install) so you can go back to the original if you wish. Test it in your program at the various sizes
Hinting problems tend to be fairly subtle and not dramatic shifts from one font style to another so there might be something else going on.
Dick Pape, thanks for your reply. No, I did not create the font myself. I’ve tried removing hinting but apparently, it does not seem to help. I’ve attached screenshots of the font scaled at sizes 8, 9, and 10 here: http://jestermania.tripod.com/fontproblem/font.html
As can be seen, the font remains its true form in sizes 8 and 10, but seem to switch to a different font at size 9. Once again, I’d appreciate any insight into this problem.
My only insight is that they are different fonts between the 8 and the 9 as you say. The A,M,Q,W,3 are all importantly different.
I downloaded it (osaka_unicode) into FC (all 5.7mb of it), and if I have a right version (Font Vendor is “Take” and version 3.000) it displayed properly and consistently from 7 pts on up. Only thing I noticed and I’m not sure of its significance is the Macintosh Platform Language was Unknown (1041) rather than some known value – I don’t know what that means.
So at this point, I would recommended you change to the font I found! Sorry can’t help further.
I also have osaka_unicode as well, but that appears to be a fixed-width font. The other version of Osaka I am showing in the screenshots is not fixed-width, but displays these anomalies at different font sizes.