I have been advised to use High Logic FontCreator 13.0 Home Edition to resolve the colour loss issue, however I have had problems creating characters with more than one colour. To illustrate the problem, I have attached screenshots from FontCreator:
Getting the fonts to appear correctly on my PC has been a challenge as has been solving the colour issue.
This is what I was told may be part of the problem:
I recommend that you get Font Creator and use that to create a font with black/white glyphs. It may take a little learning, but the glyph outlines are basically the same thing as paths in Adobe Illustrator, except that overlapping contours / paths will blend in different ways: they either combine or cancel each other out depending on the directions of the paths. Then once you are able to create the black/white font, you can build on that to add color — gray rather than black elements.
I am currently using Windows 10 as my operating system.
See Tools, Options, Exchange to modify the scaling and position of imported contours.
I have no experience of overlapping and blending colour layers, but I assume that you have to change the Alpha Transparency of the colours in the palette.
My palette has both light grey and dark grey, but both are 255 alpha, so contours in front will completely hide those behind where they overlap.
Thank you so much for keeping this thread open, real life has been hectic with disruptions caused by the ongoing Covid Pandemic. I greatly appreciate your patience from everyone here. I also reached out to a French scholar in Elamite who has done work on the script too, he encouraged me as well:
I have watched the video, but I cannot see any issues. I did notice you moved it too far to the left, but that is most likely not related to the problem you try to show.
Many thanks Mr Denisson, I have aligned it correctly now and it is showing up in the test box (strangely the screen capture software can’t capture this box).
I am now trying to adjust the colours as Mr Pesala had suggested:
I am going to work on adding 70 numeral glyphs to create the 1st font. I will go through and flag any issues I find with the glyphs but I have finally figured how to align the glyphs properly so they don’t overlap each when I test them using Font Creator’s font testing box
The main form font contains more than 1400 characters so I would have to creare multiple fonts as this exceeds what is on the a keyboard.
