I’m new to Font Creator and just created my first font consisting of all the traditional ASCII characters (less than 128). While it works for the most part, for some reason the glyphs for ’ and " are not included in the OTF font which I exported and the / glyph is not included in the WOFF I exported. Any idea why this is happening?
Probably because you haven’t registered the program yet.
See the FAQ at the top of this support forum.
I did register the program a few minutes before exporting. (The font’s don’t export if you don’t register it.)
Another weird thing with the webfonts is that if you type “1/2” then none of those glyphs show up, but if you type “1//2” then the 1 and the 2 show up (but not the /).
I don’t know - could this be something related to kerning? I did use the autokern feature.
If you are testing the otf with Microsoft Word then it automatically replaces thise quotes with smart quotes. If those are not available in the font, you will likely think the original quotes are failing.
I can’t explain why the slash fails to show in the woff variant. Are you testing it through FontCreator’s WOFF Test (Ctrl-F5)? If so can you disable all OpenType Layout Features and let us know if that shows it?
Yeah, looks like smart quotes was the problem with the TTF. When I disabled that, the font worked properly.
I can’t find an option to OpenType layout features, but I did open the script editor and comment out everything that I could. (If you just delete everything you get an error message saying that it couldn’t compile). Still having the same problem with the slashes.
script latn {
feature Ligatures;
}
#feature Ligatures liga {
#}
Could be a bug from our side. I’ll get back to you.
You don’t need to edit the OpenType script.
Just set the font Export Settings to not export them if you don’t want them.
I think a lookup like this is swapping the forward slash for a fraction slash, and not finding it, hence the blank between the 1 and 2.
lookup Lookup10 {
Referenced by feature “Fractions”
sub slash → fraction;
}
Disable the fractions feature in the Web Font Test by unchecking features that are still incomplete.
Perfect.
It can be disabled within the web page:
Just follow Bhikkhu Pesala’s advice, as right now your font uses the default script to add OpenType Layout Features. That script contains substitutions which replaces several fractions.
Two other options to consider are:
- Remove the fraction glyph
- Add an outline to the fraction glyph