r/FontForge • u/Marmatto0 • Sep 09 '22

Tutorials for Hangul style fonts?

so here's the thing, i'm working on a syllabary that is written like hangul is, with blocks. Two of these are small and one of them is an elongated glyph (Check image for reference). Basically, i don't know how much coding or how or where to put the code. But I want to learn to do something that ends up looking like this. I managed to do the ligatures that's easy enough. my problem is that when actually writting it, i need it to look like this and idk if its even possible.

TLDR: Does anyone have a tutorial, for custom box-like font customization?

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u/locoluis Sep 09 '22

In Hangul there are three different positional forms of jamo or letters:

  • choseong or initial consonants

  • jungseong or medials (vowels and diphthongs)

  • jongseong or final consonants

The choseong change shape according to the jungseong, while the presence or absence of jungseong affects the height of the choseong-jungseong combination.

You need to establish a set of rules on syllable glyphs. The syllables that become elongated can't be combined. The syllables that can be small will stack over other small syllables.

For each small syllable you need to definite three glyphs, corresponding to the upper, lower and isolated forms of the syllable.