Small Dots Distorted

[Erwin Denissen]

You should avoid mixing different outlines types in a font family.

[Karin1610]

I was afraid you were gonna say that.

[Karin1610]

So I'm making my dots with cubic curves now. That way I get the best result. I will also be redoing the existing font so as not to mix up different outline types in a font family.
But I'm having a new problem now. I have glyphs with intersecting outlines. When I click "Get union of contours", my shape will be turned into a quatratic curve and I get a notification in the top left corner, warning me about mixed contours.
How can I avoid this?

[Erwin Denissen]

Unfortunately the operation that unites contour outlines only works with quadratic curves. You could right-click the cubic based contour to revert it back to a quadratic one after you applied "Get union of contours".

[Karin1610]

Phew. This project grows and grows because then I need to manually fix all the outlines that get distorted again when turned into a quadratic curve.
What happens if I leave intersecting outlines? What would that do in the finished and exported font?

[Erwin Denissen]

It is mainly overlapping cubic curves that cause trouble...

[Karin1610]

Dang. I guess is going to be a neverending story!

[Erwin Denissen]

See these two cubic based characters:

CubicOutlines.png (99.76 KiB) Viewed 3248 times

CubicOutlinesWord.png (112.73 KiB) Viewed 3248 times

[Karin1610]

Ah, okay, I see, thanks.
Well I'll have to take the challenge. I'll get there eventually, it's just a lot more work than expected. But as long as it can be done, I'm alright.