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Dunderdale640

: Failing to draw round circles in Fontforge I'm using Fontforge to design a typeface, but I have a problem: I cannot draw round circles! :( I click the circle tool, then draw the circle in

Ann6370331

: Font-style: oblique as a substitute for italic, and vice versa I have a hard time trying to understand font-style during investigation of transient bugs in a SVG→PNG converter) and comparing

Samaraweera207

: How can I access un-encoded glyphs from a font in Scribus? When I purchase commercial fonts or I obtain quality free fonts, I find many glpyhs listed in the PDF-documentation, typically at the

Alves566

: Making a word in fontlab by combing the glyphs Is it possible to write a word in fontlab,I mean be combining the existing glyphs ans save that in a jpg or png?

Annie732

: How to create a custom font with multi-part glyphs? I'm attempting to create a custom font using FontForge. I'm using Illustrator to generate the paths. Unfortunately, my knowledge is with Photoshop,

Jessie844

: Some glyphs won't copy from Illustrator into InDesign I'm trying to copy a table created in Illustrator (not in the screenshot) into InDesign but glyphs like currency symbol or other mutations

Lengel450

: Small capital H with dot under I'm working on a document with diacritics. Everything was going well until I needed to use an Ḥ (H with a dot under) as a small capital for titles in the

Odierno310

: Adjusting font alignment and size I'm in the middle of picking a font for a rather sizeable project, and we've largely landed on Migrena Grotesque. Unfortunately, the alignment of this font seems

Berryessa866

: Why add extrema points when designing fonts? It's apparently import to add anchor points at the horizontal and vertical extrema of your paths when designing the glyphs of a font. Most font editors

Sherry646

: Kerning and alternates with "ti" So I'm familiar with some kerning/alternates used with certain letter combinations, like "fi" being combined so the top of the f hangs down into the dot of the

Moriarity648

: Glyphs (Font Editor): Meaning of yellow hue around alignment zone guidelines As a first type design exercise and in order to properly learn how to use the software, I am redrawing the typeface

Michele215

: Width of unicode musical symbols vis a vis fixed width font In my experience, the musical Unicode symbols for flat (♭) and sharp (♯) are not exactly the same width as the fixed

Karen819

: InDesign: creating a numbered list with custom glyphs I'm doing a signage design in Indesign and want to use the CIRCLED DIGIT ONE, CIRCLED DIGIT TWO, etc number glyphs for a numbered list.

Dunderdale640

: How can I create accented letters in a font where the glyphs look wrong? I’m translating to Italian an English manual for a game about 1980’s Poland and it often mentions the Solidarity

Gail6891361

: Is there a word for the particular usage of the curly brace, or a shape like it, to indicate part of a diagram? Or for measurements. Consider the green things in this image: Referred here

Turnbaugh909

: Is this Dutch IJ ligature suitable and readable to native speakers? I'm designing a display typeface and have designed, for the Dutch capital IJ digraph, a ligature that combines the "I" and

Berryessa866

: Implementing the Dutch IJ digraph as a ligature I'm designing a display typeface and having some trouble deciding how to implement the uppercase Dutch digraph "IJ". I have designed a ligature

Kristi927

: Glyphs: hide & show image in background I have placed a reference image in Glyphs in order to draw paths on top of it. Is there a way hide the image and show it again (in other words turn

Nimeshi706

: Do I really need an ſ (long s) in my typeface? From what I can tell, the long s (ſ) is obsolete. According to Wikipedia (that well known fount of infallibility), it fell out of use in

Megan533

: What is the term for consistent set of symbols? I need a good term for a symbol set with certain characteristic. Let's call it X and give a definition: "X" is a set of visually

Hamaas979

: How to convert symbols/icons to glyphs? in sketch I need to know how I can convert symbols/icons to font glyphs in sketch app? Does anyone know how to do it? Thank you in advance

Kimberly620

: Custom Glyph Group Is it possible to create a custom group of glyphs within Illustrator? There are a few select glyphs that I use repeatedly at work that come from a few different typefaces

Steve758

: How to control the appearance of alternate characters in a font I just bought this nice font, and as I was playing around with it I noticed that the last character of each word can be different

Turnbaugh909

: How to design the letter ß (eszett or sharp S) When designing a typeface, how should I design the letter ß? Looking at existing typefaces there seems to be a some variations of how the

Nimeshi706

: Why are there so many variations on the ampersand design? Most characters have a single shape or form - for instance the letter C always looks like a C. The end caps may be different, it

Berryessa866

: How should I approach designing special characters I am unfamiliar with when designing a typeface? When designing a typeface there are a number of characters that I, as an English speaker, have

Berumen635

: Do logotype and lettering designers use programs like FontLab, Glyphs App and Robofont? From what I’ve seen, type-design-specific apps have tools far more superior for drawing letters than Illustrator.

Samaraweera207

: Googlefonts: Change font only for just one character throughout the website I don't know how this happened, but every instance of the ampersand is in one specific font and style on my website

Murphy569

: Can anyone copyright or trademark a punctuation or alphabetical symbol (grapheme) or only a font, typography or typeface which contains it? I have this doubt after read about the registered (trademarked

Cody3331749

: How to know which of my fonts do or don't support certain glyphs? I have a long list of glyphs with various Unicode points across several Unicode blocks that I need to represent in a monospaced

Martha945

: Why can't I display all glyphs in some fonts? Why some glyphs are not working from some fonts? They are showing "No Unicode" in the Glyphs panel and I can't access them. I tried also to

Pierce403

: Icon/Glyph Suggestions to represent "Manufacturer Information" I'm working on making an ecommerce site responsive, and as part of that, I'm replacing text in several tabs with appropriate icons

Megan533

: Given a font file and the look of a glyph, how do I find its unicode code point? I have a font file (*.ttf) and images where a glyph is displayed. What's the easiest way to figure out

Welton168

: Why are there so many Unicode symbols for cats? A search for "cat" Unicode characters reveals no less than 12 occurrences (aside from the many CJK ideographs). By comparison, a search for

Sarah814

: How to know in which fonts a specific glyph is available? I am looking for free serif fonts containing a glyph for the U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE (i.e. a non-breaking thin space). A Palatino-style

Deb5748823

: What is the difference between Glyph and Font? I was going through one document and I came across this term 'glyph'. The term was new to me so looked into wiki for its definition. I felt

Ogunnowo857

: Combine 2 Unicode letters into 1 in Fontlab Studio Being new to Fontlab Studio 5, I'm creating a Tifinagh font using its Unicode block... I created all the letters for my font, now I need

Kaufman565

: Text SVG losing formatting and glyphs when export from illustrator I am exporting SVG from illustrator and the text with special characters is falling apart with special characters. Is there a

Samaraweera207

: How to input 'Registered Trademark' Glyph in Inkscape? I went to: Text → Glyphs → and found the symbol. However, I can't get it from the window box to the artboard. I've searched

Speyer780

: Are there any free emoji fonts? Note: I don't know if this is the right Stack Exchange site for this. If there's a better one, tell me in a comment and I'll move it there. I want to

Bryan765

: Insert multiple glyphs at once In InDesign you can insert a glyph by double clicking on it in the glyph palette window. What I would like to do is insert multiple glyphs or all the glyphs

Samaraweera207

: Does Photoshop CS6 have Glyphs? I just purchased a font and now they are saying I need to go to Illustrator and go to my "glyphs" to get the "extras" of the font.... well I dont have Illustrator...

Cofer715

: Which glyphs to design according to the needs of a particular market? Sometimes I make my own typefaces. Most of the fonts are very incomplete. I concentrate a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and some punctuation

Speyer780

: Where would I be able to download/purchase stencilled background artwork? What I mean by "stencilled" artwork is cartoonish glyphs for the background of a graphic, visible on this app page for

Nimeshi706

: A monospace font with unicode glyphs I'm looking for a monospace font which has a lot of the unicode glyphs. In particular I'm interested in the speaker symbols, code points 1F507 to 1F50A.

Murray976

: Adding missing glyphs to fonts I need to add extended characters (š,č,ř,ž,ě) to a font. I can do this in Photoshop, but can you please recommend me a program that has this functionality

Correia448

: How do I use an SVG "icon font" within Illustrator? Trello uses an icon font and I'd like to figure out how to bring in some of the glyphs into an Illustrator project. Admittedly, this is

Cofer715

: Delete a horizontal bar in an 'A' character in Glyphs I'm trying to delete that horizontal bar using Glyphs. I can delete the four points that create it, but have no way of joining the

Cofer715

: Photoshop CS6 displaying incorrect glyphs So I've downloaded a google font known as 'Didact Gothic' from Google Fonts. It works perfectly when embedded in a website. However, Photoshop CS6 does

Shelton719

: How can I write in other languages in Photoshop? In other languages, alphabets can combine characters into symbols. I don't know if Photoshop can do that. Is there a clean way to do it, or

Chiappetta793

: What are some obscure/rare/endangered/extinct typographic symbols? Just discovered the "asterism" today: ⁂ Super cool. I had never heard of it or seen it before. Wikipedia has more about it.

Debbie163

: How can I check if some OpenType font supports ligatures? I am using two fonts, STSong and STHeiti. I want to know if these fonts support ligatures, such as f + i becoming one character,

Michele215

: What is the widest glyph in Arial? I'm designing a div container that will contain some rows of text. Every row can contain 0 to 35 chars. I need to specify a fixed width for the div, but

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