Noticed there is a new edition of the manual for venerable font editor Glyphs. Download via
http://glyphsapp.com/getting-started/tutorials/

BTW It looks very nice and is clear and concise — a model for software manuals.

Hi, I am new here, and I am already searching for a very particular font:
The features I need are:
- narrow/condensed (width similar to Myriad Pro Bold Condensed one): I have to put long texts in small areas
- bold/black
- square or 45° angles
- contains all the glyphs I need (listed at the end of the message)

I have to put an overlay that simulates a LCD pattern (pixels), so I need a font with strong angles, 0, 45, 90, to avoid

annoying antialiasing glitches.
Do you think such a font exhists?

Glyphs list:
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Dear Forum

I am very brand new to this.

I really wish to create a PROPER Yiddish font, since I
type a whole lot in that language.

I won't go into details now.

I am trying to use Font Creator to make the font.

But I have a whole lot of problems.

I want to use the font with Microsoft Word

I need a lot of help, especially with the left to right - right to left problem.

I have no trouble creating the glyphs I need. They are based on a simple
Hebrew font with about 10-15 additional glyphs, which are used only
in Yiddish.

I do not need any Latin characters, but I want to be able to use both
upper case and lower case to create the needed new glyphs

If you think you can help me,
I would VERY MUCH

This is basically a question of, "What do you wish could be automated in font production?"

Sometimes a surprise, sometimes as expected – MeM is an interactive type system with a wide range of individual personalities.

The eccentric experimental type system created by Elena Schädel and Jakob Runge in 2012. It produces many personalities, each individual and emotive. You will never know which of the alternating letters is going to occur next. Basically, at the heart of it all is MeM: four different weights and letter shapes melded together into one powerful font and shuffled with the sleek usability of OpenType.

Hello all,

I am quite new to the process of creating a font so please bear with the supreme beginner-like questions about to be asked. I have 2 core issues, one of which pertains to display resolution and rendering (and the specs needed to build the font to the appropriate scale):

Glyph definition in relation to unicode standards
Pixel perfect glyphs for certain pixel scales

I was wondering how one goes about modifying glyphs of the Amharic script to a specific distressed/display style, so it's still understandable to people reading it? I need to make an Ethiopian version of a custom designed latin logotype and would like the Amharic letterforms to retain the look.

Original latin logo:

A quick Amharic version:

Original Amharic script font:

I conducting an abbreviation research to see what is best for my production rate regarding glyph names.

Example:
Alternative [alt]
Small Caps [smcp]
Alternative Small Caps [????]
Petite Caps [pcap]
Alternative Petite Caps [????]
Standard Numeral Caps? (cant’t find a better word for it) [????]
Alternative Standard Numeral Caps [????]

What I need is basically a system that makes it easy to add new forms (swash, small caps, old style numerals etc.) with consistent four-letter suffix? So that I can keep true to it.

(I hate to write for example “one.onum_tnum” or “oneonum.tnum” . . .)

If a smart standard exist (that is shared by some developers) -- it would be perfect!

BW,
Kristian

Hello everybody!!

I'm working on my first font, please share some advices about the progress of my neohumanist sanserif. Thanks

Hi,
My font was exporting with a weird order so I tried to reorder first using sort glyphs then using index mode.
After saving my encoding, I exported my font and now when I type "A" another symbol comes up. This with every glyph in the font.
Any thoughts on how to fix it?
Thanks!
Rodrigo

I am trying to find some glyphs like that in this image. (Under "location" and under "maine")

Any ideas?

Can anyone identify (or recommend) a similar font? Thanks!

Is there any way in Font Lab to create glyph specific metrics? For instance, when a capital Y is next to a Capital A I would like to have the Y snuggle up real close with the A, but when the Y is next to a T I don't want it to overlap nearly as much.

Thanks

Typodermic's Hedgrow

http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/typodermic/hedgerow/

has a nice glyphs where lower case letters sit in the space just above the upper case L's arm. Is there a name for that sort of thing? Are there other typefaces with this kind of glyph built in?

hopefully something chalk full of glyphs as well :)

I want to learn and understand how to use ligatures and glyphs better.

Does anyone know of a helpful book, a guide or an article?

Thanks for the help!

Hi,

I ran into a problem today. Currently working on my first font in FontLab, I wondered if there is a method to add for instance all ISO-Latin-3 glyphs (just the empty glyph cells) to a font without generating hundreds of glyphs one by one. I searched the manual but found nothing. Fontlab.com FAQ reffers to a page taken down in 2008 for this problem.

Sorry for asking such a basic question. I hope someone can help me with this. :)

Thank you in advance.

PS: I hope I put this into the right section of the forum. If not sorry for that.