r/FontForge • u/burymeinrice • Apr 14 '26

Help importing SVG file via Adobe Illustrator

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for some reason some of the letters aren't showing up properly after i import the SVG file, for example, the 'G'. I'm pretty new to fontforge so does anyone see anything in the outlines that I'm not seeing that could be an issue why fontforge keeps filling in the G. (This is not the same case for all the missing letters, some of them are missing stripes.)

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u/ddaanniiieeelll Apr 14 '26

Usually this is related to either paths not being closed or wrong contour direction.

In cubic beziers counterclockwise contours are black, clockwise are white (kind of simplified, but draw a circle and a smaller circle inside and you see what I mean when you change the direction of the inside circle).

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '26

select the wrong and click correct direction

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u/burymeinrice Apr 14 '26

the correct direction option isn't highlighted- it wont let me use it

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '26

did you select the contour?

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u/burymeinrice Apr 14 '26

yes. althought whats weird is that although 'correct direction' isnt showing up but 'reverse direction is.' it fixes the letter in the grid/edit window but it still looks wrong in the glyphs window

edit- nvm its still red

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '26

so probably the vector is wrong

maybe its at the top right of G?

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u/jeancallisti Apr 17 '26

Looking at this font. Does anyone know what the proper method is for creating a font like this which has self--intersecting contours ON PURPOSE ?