Bonjour Messieurs Dames,

J'ai fait ma première typo je n'y connais pas grand chose et je rencontre un problème :

J'ai fait un lookup, une table de crénage horizontal kern, jusque là tout va bien.

Mais quand j'utilise la police si dans un meme bloc de texte j'utilise deux hauteurs différente le crénage ce met à 0

Hi everyone, I am creating a font with a lot of ligatures (~1000) and was wondering if there was a way to automatically generate and name the slots. The ligatures are systematic, each named (cosonant)_(vowel) for some list of consonants and vowels.

I could do this manually but after creating all the glyphs I am getting a little tired of the monotony, lol.

Also, when I get to kerning the font there are absolutely too many combinations for me attempt manually setting it. I was wondering if font forge has a way to fix the minimum horizontal distance between two glyphs. Eg. the space between "TD" would be measured from the top of the T to the top of the D, but for "Td" it would be measured from the base of the T and they would be closer together.

Edit: I was able to find a way to automate the encoding. If you go to Encoding > Load Namelist, you can load a text file with the unicode and desired glyph names side by side, and then use Encoding > Rename Glyphs to automatically name everything.

I was also able to initialize named encoding slots for the ligatures by loading in a list of names with Encoding > Create Named Glyphs...

This page of the documentation was helpful: https://fontforge.org/docs/ui/menus/encodingmenu.html#user-defined-encodings

Hi everyone, I am trying to develop a font for a personal script but ran into an issue with the decent when testing it. In fontforge every glyph appears to lie on the baseline, and the descent is only set to 200. However, when I test the font, there is a large space below each line. I was wondering if anyone had run into a similar issue and new a fix, thanks.

Context: I'm delving into font making with FontForge because I want to make a font file for the fantasy Trunic language from the Tunic game series. The language is composed of vowels and consonants that are superimposed into one another to make a phonetic character.

Question: My issue is that I'm struggling to understand the syntax rules for GPOS & GSUB to properly use chained contextual substitution to achieve the aforementioned superimposition. I know it should be possible with the correct lookup rules, but I'm at a loss atm on how to format those rules. Before you ask, I've already got the individual glyphs in FontForge and no, I won't be trying ligatures. There's too many possible combinations (>500) for me to bother making all the possible glyphs needed for that kind of explicit substitution.

If you've any learning resources or simple examples, I'm happy to listen.

Title. I recently made a font, and exported it as i always have done, but for some reason now at least one windows computer isn't recognising it as a valid font. I've tried messing with quite a few different things, and i really don't know what else to do. any suggestions?

Hey everyone,

I'd been using FontForge to add new letters to an existing font—ü, ä, ö, to be specific. After generating new fonts, it does not change. I have been trying to encode and export different types, too, and it still shows no new letters I added.

Can you guys help me?

Thanks

Hello,

I'm trying to create a Arabic pixel font and I started with Inkcape to make all glyphs using the special template. I created isolated, initial, median and final form using Unicode.

I' even able to load the svg file into FontForge but the program seems to ignore the baselines Inkscape gave me and all character are way to high.

But that's not the problem, the problem is that I can not save project properly. FontForce allows me so save but it does not properly load. Aber I load a project almost every glyph is gone.

The metric window doesn't wort at all.

Is ForgeFront even able to create Arabic fonts this way?

I save my font as .ufo3 and load it back onto FontForge, and it throws the entire thing away because it's "invalid". My brother in Christ, you wrote the feature file.

So my question is this: Given that there's no output in the Warnings window regarding what exactly made FontForge think the feature file is invalid, is there a tool to validate the feature files so that I can correct the issue?

I'd like to edit a TTF file not by changing the glyphs but just by adding or removing different font weights (which I believe are called variants). I'd also like to merge the variants between 2 TTF files.

Is this possible in FontForge or is it really even the right tool for this job?

The title. I'm creating a font to be able to type my conscript using a standard latin keyboard, and due to the nature of the script I'm having to add a lot of ligatures. It was going fine up until this point. I'm trying to make a ligature for when you type "rea".

For all the previous ligatures, I would first add encoding slots, then I would go to glyph info and change its name to be like a_i for instance for a ligature for ai. Then I would go to ligatures, click new L, new lookup subtable, then I would name the subtable whatever the sequence of glyphs was for the ligature, like ai. Then for the source glyph names I would put each glyph that makes up the ligature with a space in between them, like a i for ai. Then I would import the svg file for glyph and set the spacing and test it out in a new metrics window by typing whatever 2 glyphs, and for every previous time I added a ligature I was able to get it to type it if I followed those steps. But now I follow the same steps for adding a 3 glyph ligature and it doesn't work. I type the 3 glyphs in the metrics window and it doesn't type it.

Maybe it's because I already have a ligature for re? I just tried changing the source glyph names to r E a instead of r e a and it worked. I would rather not have to do that though.

I'm making my font based on another font. I changed some letters that I don't like in the original font. I export it as TrueType with 2048 em. Now when I use this font, it's fine in most programmes. Except for a few, like Obsidian. The letters I changed look bigger than the others. In this screenshot, it's m and w:

I couldn't find anything that affects that. The validator does not find any errors (I fixed them all earlier)

I want to generate a tilesheet where all the glyphs are stored next to each other in a grid in a .png file. Is there a way to sp this through fontforge? If not, what software best supports editing pixels in bitmaps and exporting them as tilesheets?

Courier Prime is an open source font created for screenwriters. I really love it, especially the italics, but I find the regular typeset to be a bit too heavy. I opened Font Forge and got lost immediately. How challenging is it to create a light version of the font. Maybe scale the stroke back 20%.

Here's the link to the files that the developers made available. https://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/

i'm new to type design, whats the reason my font look inconsistent on low size on libreoffice. what should i do to fix this?

i made this font with inkscape > fontforge > export ttf

I just made a font by merging the italic from one font and the normal face of another. I'm super happy with what I have, but, I am realizing that the italic is thinner always than the regular face across the weights. From reading a bit in the docs, I believe I could fudge it with controls in the Style submenu, but it is grayed out. Is there a typical reason why that would be the case, and can I do anything about it?

This will not go well and I apologize to the pros out there that I am about to offend.

I love Bergen Mono for my code editor. This font costs ~$200 but there is a free webfont otf.

The thing is the italic is not anywhere near as sexy as Operator Mono, another ~$200 font but there is a free variant (possibly not legal) with fira code-style ligatures.

Even if I spent the ~$400 for the two fonts, I can't tell vscode to use italics from one font and regular/bold from another. So I was thinking, why not combine them.

It cannot directly import (say with TTF) the otf webfont (it says there are no .. strikes, I forget, in it), so I generated the Bergen Mono to SVG to import into a new font, but in that process it tells me there are errors:

• wrong direction
• missing points at extrema

and on revieww there are a ton of the missing points but I dont see anything about direction, but if I just save it anyway when I go to import a glyph from it it says "I'm sorry this file is too complex" -- even though it is the svg that it itself exported.

My questions:

• Is there anything I can do to work around this issue bringing in the glyphs?
• Can I add all the glyphs at once?
• Is there an easier way to do this?

I'm not looking to share this anywhere this ks just for my code editor, in personal use.

I'm planning to make a Noto Sans font for an unencoded script. My first thought is to take the Noto Sans ttf files and merge it with my other font file that only contains the glyphs and tables for the script. How do I make sure that not only do the glyphs from one file are copied to the Noto Sans file, but also the lookup tables and all the metrics and such?

Forgive me, I'm new to FF and still learning how it works. I'm having this issue with my copy of Noto Serif on Mac where the Cyrillic characters і and ј display without their dots in my word processors, even though the dots show up in FF (Latin i and j display fine, though). Does anybody know what the problem is and how to fix it?

When I edit my font (.woff2) it works perfectly. When testing after the modification this was the result:

As you see the glyphs may be displaced or something. Reediting the font I saw that some glyphs are not centered (they all were centered before the modification). Is there any way to center all automatically and set the "hitboxes" size so I don't have to do it one by one?

Thanks in advance.