Font Forum

When I look at my currently installed fonts in MainType, many (but not all) of the fonts have something listed under the "Foundry" column -- lots of Adobe, Bitstream, and other well-known names (along with a few not-so-well known). My fonts are just blank in that column, though.

Where does one fill in this information? I put "Psymon" (the name I publish, etc. under) in the "Vendor (Manufacturer)" field in the "Legal" tab in the Font Properties dialogue -- seems like the only place I could find anywhere in there where one would put something like that. Obviously that's not it, though. I would have thought this info would have been something you'd find in the "Identification" or "Extended" tab, but it seems not -- can't find anything else like that anywhere else, though.

How does one add that info in?

I'm still curious about this.

Properties -> Legal -> Vendor ID / Vendor (Manufacturer)

Or you can select the default Vendor ID for new fonts in Options, Personalize, Vendor ID.

PJMiller wrote: ↑Thu Oct 29, 2020 10:39 am Properties -> Legal -> Vendor ID / Vendor (Manufacturer)

I guess I mean the box above that, where you get a drop-down list of already-established names (I presume), so not " Vendor (Manufacturer)" but rather "Vendor ID."

How do you get an "ID"?

If that's nothing I need to concern myself with (being a "smalltimer"), then never mind -- just trying to make myself look like I have an idea what I'm doing. LOL.

FontCreator uses information that comes from the vendor id database which is maintained by Microsoft. You can register a four-letter Vendor ID.

Oh, cool! Thank you, Erwin!