Indices : "How To" Section : Programming OpenType Features

Preface
OpenType is a powerful new font format that gives users a much broader range of typographic and linguistic control than has previously been available with a single digital font. More and more type foundries offer OpenType (OT) fonts these days and one can expect the average user to become more aware of the benefits of OT fonts as more applications take advantage of their capabilites in the future.

Getting Started

Indices : (Type Design) How To Section

Design Considerations:
Drawing Glyphs
Spacing for good typefitting
Kerning
Designing for Even Color
Creating Font Families
Deriving Small Cap from Caps
Deriving Obliques from Roman (Sans)
Deriving Bold from Roman
Drawing International Characters
Drawing Cyrillic Characters
Drawing Symbols and Miscellaneous

Technical Considerations (basic):
Glyph Naming
Font Naming
Defining UPM (Units Per Em)
Understanding Metrics