Font with locl feature

Yves Michel

Hello,

Can anybody give me the name of a free font with some extensive locl feature for European languages?

I'm writing one but I face some syntax questions so I could do with a good example.

Thank you in advance!

John Hudson

Castoro has locl GSUB for Catalan, Dutch, Moldavian, Romanian, and Turkish.

The Catalan locl implementation used is only one possible approach, and not necessarily the best one. A more flexible implementation uses a variant /periodcentered/ glyph that sits at an appropriate height and is spaced/kerned appropriately for use as the Catalan punt. This allows for type to be tracked while maintaining proportional distance relationships between the punt and the L/l on either side.

Georg Seifert

There are a bunch of tutorials on our website. https://glyphsapp.com/learn?q=localize

Stefan Peev

I suggest you the article of Botio Nikoltchev: What Shall Be Done for Bulgarian Cyrillic .loclBGR.
In the section OpenType features on localfonts.eu you will find descriptions for Bulgarian Cyrillic – .loclBGR, Serbian Cyrillic – .loclSRB, Macedonian Cyrillic – .loclMKD, Bashkir Cyrillic – .loclBSH, Chuvash Cyrillic – .loclCHU, Romanian Latin – ROM, Moldovan, Latin – MOL, Turkish Latin – TRK.
For a font with a lot of local features I suggest Vollkorn.

Erwin Denissen

We have several short but handy tutorials about this topic:

Localized Forms – Turkish i

Localized Forms – Romanian Comma Accent

Localized Forms – Catalan Punt Volat

Stefan Peev

@Yves Michel tell us the name of your font editor. Do you try to write FEA file outside of your font editor?

Yves Michel

Thank you all for your quick and efficient help. The fonts Castoro designed by John and Vollkorn suggested by Stefan are the kind of examples I was looking for.

@Georg Seifert I had a look before at the glyphsapp site.

And Alex H. on the Fontlab 7 forum gave me this address I didn't know.

http://adobe-type-tools.github.io/afdko/OpenTypeFeatureFileSpecification.html

@Stefan Peev I'm on Fontlab 7 and a beginner in OpenType Features.

Yves Michel

@Erwin Denissen Thanks for the tutorials, I'll have a look at Font Creator.