Re: Help with ligatures, etc.
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 2:07 pm
Okay, what the heck -- here's my font (attached). I think my needing advice here is probably more important than worrying about "font theft" (which, as you pointed out, is pretty hard to police anyway). I've also attached here a couple screenshots from my ebook (as it looks in iBooks on my iPad) that I've been working on that goes along with it. The reason the font and the ebook "go together" is because the ebook is a digital version of the original 1561 text from which I created this font (although I only was able to glean just the most basic character set from that, and had to create all the additional glyphs -- Greek, Cyrillic, symbols, etc. -- myself).
Some things to note in the ebook screenshots...
- In the main book "cover" graphic (which is tentative -- like everything else in the book) you'll see the word "WICKEDNESSE" in all-caps. There's actually four ligatures in that one word: WI, CK, DN, and SS. In creating that cover image in Photoshop, all the ligatures -- never mind the kerning -- come out just fine, no problems!
- And this brings up where all the main issues are with my font, i.e. in the actual text itself. If you look at the screenshot of the title page, you'll see both "WICKEDNESSE" again as well as "Wickedneſſe" (with only an initial cap) -- it's there twice for the moment just for testing purposes. As you can see, in this all-caps version of the word, none of those uppercase ligs show up -- but as you can also see here, the lowercase ligs do show up no problem! You can see an "st" lig in "Detestable," as well as the double-longs one in "Wickedneſſe." In that latter instance, however, there's way too much space between it and the following "e" (and also a little too much between the double-longs and the preceding "e," too).
Again, everything seems to work fine in Photoshop -- it's very mysterious to me why things are only "half-working" in my ebook.
And just a note on my font...
- Please be gentle with me! Apart from a very simple font of my handwriting that I did a decade or so ago, this is actually my very first "real" font that I've ever put any great effort into, so I'm sure it's far from perfect -- but I am trying my best to get it right (with your help)! And yes, I still have a ton of empty glyphs in my PUA -- I'll delete all those later on, as I just left those empty slots there for now as "placeholders" in case I need to make some more ligs (or alts). Any thoughts, comments, suggestions, critiques, scathing condemnations, etc. welcome!
Some things to note in the ebook screenshots...
- In the main book "cover" graphic (which is tentative -- like everything else in the book) you'll see the word "WICKEDNESSE" in all-caps. There's actually four ligatures in that one word: WI, CK, DN, and SS. In creating that cover image in Photoshop, all the ligatures -- never mind the kerning -- come out just fine, no problems!
- And this brings up where all the main issues are with my font, i.e. in the actual text itself. If you look at the screenshot of the title page, you'll see both "WICKEDNESSE" again as well as "Wickedneſſe" (with only an initial cap) -- it's there twice for the moment just for testing purposes. As you can see, in this all-caps version of the word, none of those uppercase ligs show up -- but as you can also see here, the lowercase ligs do show up no problem! You can see an "st" lig in "Detestable," as well as the double-longs one in "Wickedneſſe." In that latter instance, however, there's way too much space between it and the following "e" (and also a little too much between the double-longs and the preceding "e," too).
Again, everything seems to work fine in Photoshop -- it's very mysterious to me why things are only "half-working" in my ebook.
And just a note on my font...
- Please be gentle with me! Apart from a very simple font of my handwriting that I did a decade or so ago, this is actually my very first "real" font that I've ever put any great effort into, so I'm sure it's far from perfect -- but I am trying my best to get it right (with your help)! And yes, I still have a ton of empty glyphs in my PUA -- I'll delete all those later on, as I just left those empty slots there for now as "placeholders" in case I need to make some more ligs (or alts). Any thoughts, comments, suggestions, critiques, scathing condemnations, etc. welcome!