Daphne Preston-Kendal
Daphne Preston-Kendal
I guess the benefit is, once I have the offset values for all fonts, I can write a script that will generate the `glif` files for any combination on demand...
As a goal for what languages to support, it would be nice to support all the Latin-scripted [languages of the European Union](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Union) (that is, all of them except Greek and...
Okay, after some moderately successful bodging of characters in FontForge today, I think I’m ready to upgrade what I hope can be achieved from ‘Latin-scripted languages of the European Union’...
| Char. | Langs | |--|-:| | č | 10 | | Č | 10 | | ń | 4 | | Ń | 4 | | ć | 4...
All those characters are already in the font — I’m only counting ones that aren’t there already. Thanks for double checking!
The original fonts were also incapable of having kerning pairs between small capitals and regular capitals, since small caps were in a separate font. This probably needs to be fixed...
Also the kerning is somewhat inconsistent even when it is there: Ly is kerned in the bold font, but not in the Roman one, to give just one example.
As an example for what the f with shorter hook might look like: *Edit:* Superseded, see `draft-glyphs/f.deu.glif`
fj will probably make it into 2.0 — I just designed it (and dcroat) in all weights and styles 🎉
[The specimen of Aldus Manutius’s original *De Aetna* typeface from the SB Berlin](https://tw.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ma10568) appears to include a shorter-hooked f to use as a basis for the design. Happily, it confirms...