Hi This is osifont project. Free technical font. Feel free to use it or even better, joint the project. Any questions, suggestions or ideas please send to project admin. Project admin: hikikomori82@gmail.com. Project hosted on: http://code.google.com/p/osifont/ https://github.com/hikikomori82/osifont Created with: FontForge, Gimp, Inkscape Font is distributed under GNU GPL licence version 3 with GPL font exception: "Linking this font statically or dynamically with other software or documents is making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this font give you permission to link this library with independent software or documents to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent software or documents, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent software or documents is not derived from or based on this font. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version." FontForge notes and tips - Recommended bearing (space on the sides of the glyphs): 100 a 130 130 o 130 150 b 130 150 U 150 So stright full height (left B, left L, both U) have 150 Straight but half height (right b, right a, left d) have 130 No straight line (both v, left a, right c) have 100 - Shortcuts Ctrl+2 - Curve point ( ) Ctrl+3 - Corner point [ ] Ctrl+4 - Tangent point --> Cltr+Shift+> - goto glyph Ctrl+Shhift+_ - Round to int Ctrl+e - Find problems - When creating straight lines Select 2 points Edit-Make line Ctrl+4 - When you create composed font, e.g. D + ˇ = Ď, sometimes width may be too small, "Ď" is ok, but when you create "Ǐ", it might be too narrow. You can't imediatelly move left/right bearings because they are locked (small lock icon appears next to them). You must first unlock it: Edit->Unlock reference - After this you might also need this: Element->Round->To int Element->Find problems - Kerning. When you use Metrics->Auto kern, or Metrics->Kern pair closeup, it wont work. You have to do this: Element->Font info->Lookups->Gpos: - If there are any previous attempts about kerning, erase them - Click button "Add lookup" - In combo "Type" choose "Pair position (kerning)" - In first column "Feature" click on white rectangle, then gray rectangle and choose "Horizontal kerning", type name, e.g. "kern" - Press "ok", dialog will dissapear - Press "add subtable", name it, choose "horizontal", then choose "pairs" - Click blue and type "T" in first column, "e" in second, -350 in thrird column - Add other pairs as needed - Click ok, ok - File->Generate fonts, choose TTF Achieved kerning results: Gedit 2.30.3 - works Firefox >= 3.6 - works Chrome 25 - works PHP GD - broken Osifont since 2014-03-10 contains 2 special kerning characters "Ȩȩ" (U+0228 U+0229). They together form "Kon" if kerning is supported, or "Kno" if it is not supported. Firefox is currently the only browser that supports kerning. - Ligatures: 1. Element->Font info->Lookups->GSUB->Add lookup Choose "Ligature substitution" in combo (this needs to be done only once, osifont has it since 2014-03-15) Name it "liga" as maximal name length is 4 characters. 2. Encoding->Add encoding slots->1 (New slot will be added to the very end, edit it) 3. Element->Glyph info->Unicode->Glyph name (choose e.h. f_f_i for ffi ligature, I recomend using _ as separator as this will be autodetected later in step 5) 4. Element->Glyph info->Unicode->OT Glyph Class (choose "Base lig") 5. Close this dialog by pressing "OK" and reopen it Element->Glyph info->Ligatures-> Click on blue , choose "liga" table, "f f i" will be automatically added (if you used underscores in name) If you have ligature for non latin glyphs, use e.g. "uni023B uni023B" 6. Element->Build->Composite font If you want to change shape, use Edit->Unlink reference or clear it and start from the scratch 7. When you are done, close glyph and reopen it. On the left, at [0] position there is "Lig caret", use mouse and move it between 2 characters of glyph. Three glyph ligature like ffi would have 2 of those "Lig caret". Move one between ff and one between fi. Osifont since 2014-03-15 contains special ligature made of characters "Ȼȼ" (U+023B U+023C). They together form ligature "Lon" if ligatures are supported, or "Kno" if they are not supported. Firefox is currently the only browser that supports ligatures. - Fixing errors and cleaning up glyphs When new glyph is done or after you modify glyph, you can do certain tasks to make it more correct. 1. entire glyph should be rounded to int. Usually it already is, but sometimes it slips from int to float. Hit Ctrl+A to select all points, then Element->Round->Int or press Ctrl+Shift+_ 2. Make sure the outer outline of the font is clockwise and inner outline is counter clockwise. It it is not, select those olive colored points and change their orientation by Element->Clockwise or Element->Counter clockwise. 3. Make sure font width is correct and it is centered correctly with just the right amount of space on the sides. This is called "bearing" and correct values are mentioned above, but there is some room for adjustment, it is better to make it consistent among related glyphs than to blindliy obey some magic numbers. 4. Run tool "Find problems" (Ctrl+E). In the dialog click on "Set all" and on "BB" tab: - uncheck "Check advance" (because we have variable width font). - uncheck "Check BB above" (esp. for accented glyps because they all taller than normal glyph) Then click "Ok", it should say "No problems found". Otherwise it will tell you what is wrong and allow you to fix it. Some problems has to be fixed manually. Sometimes it is good to stop and "round to int" again and then continue in finding problems. Error: The hint does not control any points Solution: Run autohint again (Ctrl+Shift+H) Error: The glyps extend left further than desired Solution: Adjust bearing (step 3). Sometimes, this is not an error, see for example glyph Ħ (Hbar), the bar extends left and right, but capital letter is usually followed by small letter so it will not interfere. Error: The selected points are too close to each other. Solution: very often you just accidentaly clicked and added another point next to already existing point (sometimes there is one above other). Zoom in and move them a bit. You can merge them by Edit->Merge (Ctrl+M). Or do it by hand. ---------[]---------[]-------- 2 poins ---------[]----*----[]-------- add thrid point (add a cornder point) ---------[] []-------- delete it (del) --------------------()-------- move first point to second --------------------[]-------- restore correct point type (e.g. corner point in this case, Point->Corner (Ctrl+3)) 5. Run autohint (Ctrl+Shift+H), then run "Find problems" again. Sometimes hints are too close to point that are not related to that hint, this is generally not a problem and you can ignore it. 6. Make sure tangent points are where they should be (e.g. look at the top of the letter T). Convert those points to tangent "Point->Tangent" (Ctrl+4). Usefull tools for this is sometimes selecting two points and "Point->Make line".