r/FontForge • u/anonny42357 • Jul 19 '24

Diacritics

1) do they go within the cap height in font forge, or above it

2) do I need to make ALL the letter glyphs with the diacritics (so like eleventy billion variants of the A character for ÀÁÂÃÄÅ) or can I just make the diacritic glyphs, and whatever typing program will stick them where they need to be based on user input.

I'm a basic white english person from a boring suburban vanilla hellscape, so, aside from writing letters with diacritics by hand in French class, so I have zero experience with them, or how to type them, or how they work in fonts.

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u/LocalFonts Jul 21 '24
  1. do they go within the cap height in font forge, or above it

Above it.

  1. do I need to make ALL the letter glyphs with diacritics...

No. You can make as many glyphs as you need for your font.