I have a question about redesigning an existing font to add glyphes or diacriticals and was advised to post my question here in the hope that someone on this forum could offer some help or advice.
I am redesigning my website and like a monospaced font pairing used on this website https://www.hermes.com/us/en/
Basically it looks like they are using OratorW01 and a Courrier font pairing. I absolutely love the Orator font but since my site is Hawaiian I need diacritical and accented charactors that are not included in the font download. I dont need many – basically a left hand quote and a macron on the vowels. Orator is an older font (1962) and it is available for free download. I dont know how Hermes added in the punctuation and diacriticals – they seem to be using this font primarily for display and headings.
Is
there a way I could modify the font or hire a designer to do this? Is this a
big undertaking if I wanted to customize the font and then upload it for use on
my website?
Thank
you so much for your help.
Comments
If you are serious about wanting to modify fonts for your language needs, then you need to start with genuinely free—libre, public domain, or open source fonts—published under appropriate licenses that permit modification (as well as use, of course, and redistibrution), such as the Open Font License or Apache 2.0 license or similar.
It also has proportionally-spaced versions, and versions with lowercase characters. The proportional spacing looks nicer of course:
The fonts Hermès uses contain the standard western character set, as far as I can see, which supports French diacritics but not the more "exotic" ones.