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Follow these steps to create a CYRILLIC LETTER I WITH GRAVE in FontLab 8:
This is a placeholder topic for typographers that google the method of how to create CYRILLIC CAPITAL / SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE but don't know, like I didn't the name the FontLab team has assigned …1 -
Re: Diacritics clipped in consecutive lines
Yes, that is what I suspected might be the problem. You have a cap height of 1911, which is about 93% of your em instead of 70%. The simplest way to fix the problem is to increase the em to ~ 2730 (w…2 -
Re: Rotating Alternates
Ulrike Rausch's talk on Typo Labs 2018 deals with that matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCviu05n_XA2 -
Re: How to identify a 'OTC collection' font type?
Thanks John. I had not realized that Apple MacOS does that. Very interesting. And yes I can see now that the TTC Header is the key, as you kindly mentioned. Thanks for that too. Wrt NotoSansCJK-Regul…1 -
Re: Rotating Alternates
Grab the OT code from Caveat (3 alternates of each letter) https://github.com/googlefonts/caveat1 -
Re: Rotating Alternates
https://glyphsapp.com/learn/features-part-3-advanced-contextual-alternates (potentially helpful even if you don’t use Glyphs) https://opentypecookbook.com/common-techniques/ (scroll down to Fun Stuff)1 -
Re: Rotating Alternates
Just curious, would taking the OpenType code from an OFL font require using that license for the new font?2 -
Re: Rotating Alternates
Think about the general pattern of what you want: if an alternate appears after the same glyph, switch it for the next alternate in the set. Then write (or script!) that: # When you see <alternate…2 -
Re: Diacritics clipped in consecutive lines
Igor’s advice works okay for typical Latin fonts for western European languages, but there are plenty of writing systems, including some Latin ones such as Vietnamese, where the relationships between…3 -
Re: Diacritics clipped in consecutive lines
Here is the relationship between values. The "Line Gap" on the drawing is the value you define for your font in the font-drawing software, in your case Font Lab. "Safe Top" (ascen…1
