I noticed that one of the emoji is ROASTED SWEET POTATO and I wondered if I could make a good glyph design by recycling some heat lines which I used in my Hot Beverage font, which was made using the Softy program back in 2003.
The Hot Beverage font was my first published font. It is still available on the web at the following web page.
Here is a transcript of the notes which I made, using WordPad, while I was making the High Plane Mapping 004 font.
Saturday 3 January 2009
08:51 am
Save a copy of HIGHM003.TTF in HIGHM004.TTF.
Use Tools AutoNaming… to change the name to High Plane Mapping 004.
Try to add another glyph to the font in plane 15.
http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoji4unicode/snapshot/utc
U+FE974 ROASTED SWEET POTATO
Insert a cell after the rainbow glyph as U+FE974 is after U+FE00D.
The decimal equivalent of the hexadecimal U+FE974 is 1042804.
Map the cell, using the Microsoft Unicode full repertoire platform to be U+FE974.
Format Post… Generate Names OK.
Set the advance width to 1792 font units.
Open the Hot Beverage font.
Copy the heat lines from the glyph.
Move the heat lines down by 256 font units.
Move the right heat line to the right by 128 font units.
Move the lowest point of each heat line up by one font unit.
Draw a shape to represent a sweet potato.
Validate the font.
Install the font.
Try the font in WordPad on this PC which has Windows xp professional.
Key the following.
12345
It works well.
Try Alt 1042804 to observe what happens.
It works well.
09:17 am.
HIGHM004.TTF
William Overington
3 January 2009