Questions tagged [font-design]
Questions about the creation of typefaces and storing them into font files.
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align text to curve but keep vertical orientation of letters
In Photoshop, I am trying to align the baseline, x height, and cap height of some text to a curve, but I'd like to keep the vertical orientation of the letters strait up and down, and not let the ...
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How to create a custom font with multi-part glyphs?
I'm attempting to create a custom font using FontForge. I'm using Illustrator to generate the paths. Unfortunately, my knowledge is with Photoshop, not Illustrator. While I've been able to create the ...
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Preventing overlapping contours from "cancelling out" in Type Light
I'm using Type Light 3.2 and am struggling to find a reasonable way to prevent overlapping shapes "cancel out" and leave white areas in glyphs. How can I avoid this without having the overlaps be ...
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How do I make the letters seem as a part of the entire type set?
Tldr; Help me identify elements/qualities in "I" that makes it seem belonged to this set
Greetings
I am a design enthusiast, and to understand typefaces, I started 36 days of type.
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Find the font from a single ’C’ character
I'm looking for the typeface from which this C came from. What The Font did not help.
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FontForge is cropping my font at the bottom and reversing changes to ascent and descent heights
I am modifying a font that was published using the Open Font Licence.
So I save the existing font under a different name, open it using FontForge, and start working on it. Change the "f" ...
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How to merge or open a color OpenType SVG font (EmojiOne) in Font Forge?
I am trying to merge EmojiOne into a regular OTF font to give the basic OTF font Emoji support:
https://github.com/adobe-fonts/emojione-color
Typically I would open the regular OTF font, then go ...
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Why are there so many variations on the ampersand design?
Most characters have a single shape or form - for instance the letter C always looks like a C. The end caps may be different, it may have serifs, the terminals may end at a different angle, but the ...
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Umbrella term for typography, lettering, calligraphy
Is there a term to refer to the type design, lettering, calligraphy, and other related types of art/design?
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How to convert a regular font to a UI font?
I have an Android device and its language is Arabic. I want to replace its font with my own one (which is nicer!), but the default font for Arabic in Android is NotoNaskhArabicUI (which is a UI font; ...
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Inkscape: batch processing (expand) SVG font glyphs
In inkscape, I would like to apply a batch process to all Glyphs of a SVG font, like:
either just enlarge the path to make it look bolder
or, maybe equivalently, add a stroke, then stroke to path, ...
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Fontforge/Illustrator problems with SVG files and fonts
This is my first attempt at designing a font.
I created SVGs in Adobe Illustrator 2022 from editing an open-source font, typing, then converting the text to paths, then manipulating before saving as ...
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Why does a font have holes in small sizes and not in large sizes?
I am making a font. It looks fine in the editor (Glyphr Studio), but, if I try it in Word, it has holes where paths overlap in sizes to 74. In sizes from 75, it doesn't have the holes. It happens in ...
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Do you know this fonts?
do you know this fonts?
I would really appreciate it
Thank you
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French 70s-style commercial font identification
I'm looking for the name of a font which was quite commonly used on storefronts in France during the late 70s / early 80s (I guess). I'm also interested in some history and/or trivia about this font ...
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What Japanese font is this used in the TeikouPenguin YT channel opening?
what is font used in the opening of the テイコウペンギン youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@teipen.official/videos
Ive tried using font recognizers but nothing...
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Which font's digits resemble Nixie tube digits?
I will try to mimic Nixie tube digits in an application. For responsiveness and scalability I won't use any rasterized images of actual tubes, this will be a sufficiently adequate mock which just ...
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Hebrew Diacritics Positioning Error In Word Processor
I'm using FontForge to create a Hebrew font that supports advanced diacritics, i.e. distinguishes between sheva naḥ and dagesh ḥazaq/qal. The Unicode symbols for sheva and dagesh represent the ...
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Why is my colour font not being outlined in Inkscape?
I am working on a card game and I'm using template .svg files in Inkscape to create cards quickly. My end goal is to be able to place coloured icons inline with text without having to lay them out by ...
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Is there a template sheet I can use to capture a person's handwriting including common glyph pairs?
I'd like to capture someone's handwriting, I can set up a printed sheet with some guides for x-height and descenders, but wondered if there was already some sort of standard template that also has ...
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How do I make sure the unicode box drawing characters work properly in my font?
Unicode has a set of characters for drawing simple graphics. Here is an example from Wikipedia:
┌─┬┐ ╔═╦╗ ╓─╥╖ ╒═╤╕
│ ││ ║ ║║ ║ ║║ │ ││
├─┼┤ ╠═╬╣ ╟─╫╢ ╞═╪╡
└─┴┘ ╚═╩╝ ╙─╨╜ ╘═╧╛
There there ...
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copy + paste glyphs from one font to another FontForge
how do i keep the glyph size when copy/pasting one glyph from a font to another? anytime i do it the font when pasted is tiny in bounding box
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Anchor points were lost while copying and pasting glyphs from one TTF file to another using Font Forge
I am copying the glyph from a ttf file of the same emsize 1024 to another ttf file. I get an Anchor lost popup saying that at least one anchor point is lost while copying the glyph. How do I fix this? ...
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How can I fix the height difference between letters in a custom ttf that is rendered in HTML?
I am trying to create a custom ttf file using font forge. The purpose of building a single custom ttf file is to use all alpha-numeric characters (a-zA-Z0-9) of the 3 fonts as 1 font file. . The fonts ...
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Creating a font from an old image?
If you go to https://www.woodbrass.com/images/woodbrass/FUZ5888-2.JPG you'll see an example of an old manuscript of "tablature", which is a system of notating music not by using a modern ...
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Is there a way to create a font where only part of it is recolorable?
Basically, if you highlighted it and changed the color to, say, red, only parts of glyphs would turn red - the rest would stay black no matter what.
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Illustrator: can I change the edge of a stroke to give the shape i wanted to it
So im currently creating a font but i cant figure out how to allign the edge of my stroke with my guidline. As you can see in the image, I'm creating open path so i can change the width later (for ...
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Why are intersection and union characters inconsistent in multiple fonts?
I wanted to use the Unicode characters:
U+2229 Intersection
U+222A Union
They are next to each other in the Unicode table.
Here's how they look on Stack Exchange:
∩∪
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How can I release my font under SIL font license or Appache font license
I made fonts for logo design 3 weeks ago and I want to give it to others so they can use it for free.
Would you please tell me the process how to do it?
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How to remove unused glyphs from a font?
I tried using fontforge to remove unused glyphs in order to make font file size lower. I removed them from a woff file and exported as woff, but the result was low quality. Any advice?
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Free tool to create Colour Fonts
I am a beginner, and normally use Font Forge and Inkscape to create fonts. But those tools do not support colour fonts yet. Wondering whether there is any free tool for Windows or Ubuntu that can help ...
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Type of font used in this image
Hello,kindly help me identify this type of font.Thanks in advance.
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How can I obtain/generate a pair of fonts differring only on ascenders?
I'm doing some QA work on the LibreOffice free software office suite w.r.t. vertical alignment behavior in some scenarios.
To illustrate a point, and perhaps to test a theory, I need to use two fonts ...
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Does there exist a mono-spaced (fixed-width) font for all Unicode characters?
Does there exist a font for all 149,186 characters in Unicode such that every character, or symbol, in the font has the same width as any other character?
It is very difficult to write python scripts ...
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I want to use a font's "bold" variant as "regular" (for example in Keynote), how can I do this?
I found a really lovely font that I want to use. It has several variants:
Sadly, the "Bold" options feels much too heavy for me, I'd rather use "Semibold" instead. And while I can ...
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Help me identifying this japanese font
Can someone help me identifying this japanese font?
I have tried font identification site like likefont but still haven't found the exact same one.
This image is from a T-Shirt image, and this is the ...
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how to calculate font ascenders and descenders in Adobe Photoshop?
I am trying to position text at the top-left corner of a canvas in Adobe Photoshop by setting its x and y coordinates to 0. However, due to the font's ascenders, the text is not aligned to the top-...
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Can I export an Inkscape SVG to a TTF file?
I have tried my hand at designing a font, and have made the individual SVG files for each character on Inkscape. Looking at other things about this topic, the answer always seems to be something along ...
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How to design musical characters in a font?
As a programmer, I was doing some Unicode testing and I figured out that the 𝄞-character gives an awesome testing candidate. Now, 2 weeks later, I was wondering how these Unicode symbols would be ...
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What is this design called? (Cramming words into an area with some words bigger than others)
What is this design called? (Cramming words into an area with some words bigger than others)
Are there tools to create this on the fly eg. Wordpress plugin. Picture is just an example I found on ...
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Identify this 'Cinderella' font
Can anyone help me identify the font used for 'Cinderella'. I can't seem to place it. Thanks!
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Why does this 'w' join at the top?
I saw this brewery the other day and have never seen a letter 'w' like it (in the word 'brewing'). Why does the left half of the letter not resemble the 'u' of which this letter is a double?
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How to embolden glyphs in inkscape?
Programmatic Solution for Emboldening Glyphs
In other words I want a tool that helps me convert glyphs to heavier/lighter weights.
I have been using Inkscape v1.2 to create glyphs, but now I want to ...
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How to find the widths of letterforms of a font of given style and size?
I'm stymied trying to hand letter the text in a one off sign for my yard:
NO LIFE
MATTERS
WHERE
BLACK LIVES
DON'T
Using Libre Office Draw I centered the text (Liberation Sans, 72pt) in a window ...
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What's the rectangle surrounding a font glyph, including its sidebearings, called?
What's the rectangle surrounding a font glyph, including its sidebearings, called? I Googled the words "bounding box" and got conflicting results, where some sources say it's the rectangle ...
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How to condition the glyph of a code point based on the vowel gender in the same word?
Here's the Mongolian Universal White Font Link.
BACKGROUND
In Mongolian, vowels A (U+1820), O (U+1823) and U (U+1824) are masculine and vowels E (U+1821), OE (U+1825), UE (U+1826) are feminine. ...
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Change font initial line spacing?
I'm wondering, for a given font which I have the .otf file for, is it possible to adjust the fonts initial line spacing? For instance, I'm an iOS developer, and I noticed when you set a fonts line ...
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Is there a Hindi (Devanagiri) Font style that matches - Impact, Oswald and Anton - (Latin) fonts?
I tried searching for a Hindi (Devanagiri) Font that matches the consdensed bold style of famous Latin font - 'Impact'.
Please let me know if there is a bold condensed font like the above for ...
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How to set an 'ignore' on a pattern for contextual substitution in FontForge
I'm working on coding a custom font in FontForge for some positional alternates of letters. I am not working with feature files for alternates, but using the FontForge interface for building lookups (...
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How to make a letter black in illustrator when editing from a whole letter to a section of one
I started with the full letter S and wanted to split it into three but when getting just the middle part no matter how I do it (with scissors, closing the end with pen, deleting anchors then moving ...
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