Font with locl feature

Yves Michel · February 2021

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 · February 2021

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 · February 2021

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

Stefan Peev · February 2021

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 · February 2021

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 · February 2021

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

Yves Michel · February 2021

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 · February 2021

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

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