: Make a character in a font look like multiple characters of the same font I have a free font in TTF and WOFF form. I want to create a ”multi-character”, by which I mean a character that

@Goswami567

If I understand correctly, what you want can be achieved using an OpenType multiple substitution. I do not know, how this is done in your program and whether it is capable of cerating such features at all, so I can only give you the general idea:


Create a lookup of the multiple substitution type and assign it to some feature. Probably you want a feature that is enabled by default, such as ccmp – though there is probably a feature that fits better, but that’s only a question of good practice and should not affect whether it actually works.
Add a new subtable to that feature.
Add an entry to that table corresponding to what you want to have replaced. In FontForge this would be:


Base Glyph Name: 9
Replacement Glyph names: S t a c k space E x c h a n g e



After this and if the corresponding feature is activated (which in particular requires an OpenType-capable program), whenever somebody types 9 in that font, the font will output Stack Exchange. The kerning (i.e., the spacing of letters) should be as usual in that font.

Something similar can be probably done with other intelligent font technologies such as Graphite or AAT.

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