Pali Typeface

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  1. Version 3.40 fixed some bugs, and added many kerning pairs including some for lowercase/Uppercase.
  2. Code-points of glyphs for OpenType features in the Private Use Area were removed.
  3. Titling Capitals were removed and replaced with a Capital Spacing (cpsp) feature.
  4. I have added a position​indicator glyph to Miscellaneous Technical, fourteen Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows, eighteen Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs including coloured glyphs for Direct Hit (a dartboard) and three globes, and twenty-five public information signs in Transport and Map Symbols.
  5. Where appropriate, composites were composed with anchors, and narrow diacritics were used for narrow base glyphs.
  6. The WOFF versions are compressed and have no hinting to minimize file size. If you want to add hinting to the WOFF versions, this can easily be done using the free ttfautohint utility, which is what FontCreator uses to hint fonts.

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Great job Bhikkhu, beautiful font

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Version 3.44 added a few kerning pairs. I use a test adjustment pair lookup for adding new pairs to save regenerating the whole main lookup table, and thus having to redo manual adjustments on many pairs. The @comma class includes comma, period, and ellipsis …

lookup PairAdjustmentTest {
pos @comma @J_Caps <-92> <0>;
pos @comma @O_Caps <-107> <0>;
pos @comma @V_Caps <-510> <0>;
pos @comma @W_Caps <-342> <0>;
pos @comma @Y_Caps <-382> <0>;
pos @comma @v_lc <-310> <0>;
pos @comma @w_lc <-271> <0>;
pos @comma @y_lc <-293> <0>;
pos @comma @y_lc_top <-293> <0>;
pos @comma @v_lc_top <-310> <0>;
}

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I found a number of bugs in my fonts with the help of improved diagnostics in the latest FontCreator Updates (Better Parsing for Class Based Kerning). However, the main bug seems to have been in PagePlus, which apparently does not support kerning of unmapped glyphs. So I added mapping for Small Capitals, Petite Capitals, Superscripts, and Subscripts.

Version 3.65 fixed kerning bugs, added kerning pairs for lowercase and super/subscripts. Be aware that this may affect the text flow of some documents. This latest update also improved coloured glyphs for Transport and Map Symbol, rocket, and added sample text to Font Properties, Extended.

Version 3.67 added more kerning pairs and fixed some bugs.

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Pali version 3.70

  • Updated the coloured glyph for Transport and Map symbol rocket to celebrate the safe landing of the SpaceX Dragon capsule
  • Added kerning pairs for lowercase
  • Added PUA mappings to super/subscript and petite/small capitals to support kerning in PagePlus
  • Unified advance width of symbols
  • Added uppercase subscripts for fractions
  • Resized superscripts to x-height (used by pcap glyphs, subscript glyphs, and enclosed alphanumerics)
  • Used Autometrics to improve spacing of superscripts
  • Scaled Petite Capitals to match the copyfit of lowercase.

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Pali Version 3.71

Stripped kerning pairs with comma, period, first as they cause severe spacing issues with abbreviations. Added more kerning pairs for lowercase and Petite/Small Capitals.

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Pali Version 3.72

Improved the Greek glyphs and added more kerning pairs.

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Pali Version 3.73

Improved some kerning classes and added more kerning pairs.

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Pali Version 3.74

Loosened some kerning pairs such as ‘a, ‘c, ‘d, h’ etc.
Fixed a bug.

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Pali Version 3.75

Loosened some more kerning pairs such as ‘Ta, ‘Tv, ‘Tw, Ty’ etc.