I’m software developer and not really experienced with fonts. The development environment I use does not support vertical fonts, so what I need to do is to rotate standard fonts for 90° and use them inside the application. I’ve purchased FontCreator and could successfully rotate a font, however the outcome is not really satisfying. Searching the forum I came over a thread from 2004 with exactly this topic. The member is referenced to a thread http://forum.high-logic.com:9080/t/more-symbol-font-problems/528/1 were these topics are covered. However, when I click this link, I get the message that I’m not authorized to read this forum.
So I wanted to ask, if I could either can get permission to read this thread, or a helpful soul maybe could give me some important hints. The fonts are exclusively used as screen fonts, so their screen appearance is important. My favorite would be Segoe as it is great to read.
The hidden thread is not about vertical fonts, but asks about reducing the vertical space between lines of text for symbols.
The license conditions for Segoe won’t permit editing. Look for another font with an Open license that does. Probably you will want a monospaced font, and use the glyph transformation to rotate each glyph about its centre or a fixed point.
Thanks for your swift reply. I was not aware that Segoe UI has such limiting restrictions as it is part of Windows7. So I will go for Open Sans. When I understand this correct, I first should convert the font to monospaced before rotating?
The reply to the user in that thread was
You need to adjust top and bottom bearing-extent-lines (black, solid, horizontal lines). Go to:
Format → Settings → Windows tab and experiment by adjusting Win Ascent and Win Descent values; but see Erwin Denissen’s full discussion on the subject at: