New answers tagged font-design
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I think the most likely cause of this problem is that the path of your 'a' glyph isn't closed.
Here's a simple example. Here, the 'a' glyph is open near the top of the stem. Although it is filled in the glyph preview window, it doesn't appear in the metrics window and probably won't render properly when exported to a font.
If you drag one end point over the ...
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FontForge has a very steep learning curve. It's a fairly-powerful tool once you've learned your way around it, but those first few steps are almost impossible.
Source: I've recently begun using it to design glyphs for a side hobby project of mine (a modified English alphabet allowing for a 1:1 phoneme:letter correspondence, in case anyone's curious), and I ...
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