From the monthly archives: January 2012

Oxygen Font Progress

On January 31, 2012 · 3 Comments

Work on Oxygen Font is nearing 0.2 release. After the 0.2 release, development will focus on the Bold weight and improving the Cyrillic and extended Latin characters.

Oxygen Font can be downloaded for testing from the KDE projects GIT repository at https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/artwork/oxygen-fonts


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Creating Contextual Ligatures in FontForge

On January 26, 2012 · 3 Comments

A brief HowTo in Creating Opentype Contextual Ligatures and Alternative Characters with FontForge.

Norican is a script face that to a certain extent emulates hand written lettering, yet unlike hand written lettering it doesn’t contain contextual variations across it’s characters. However using opentype programming we can add features to Norican for providing character variants [...]

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Ttfautohint – Gui added

On January 24, 2012 · 3 Comments

Werner Lemberg has started adding a GUI front-end to ttfautohint, his library which adds truetype hinting instructions to Truetype fonts using the information given by FreeType’s autohinting module.
The latest ttfautohint code is at http://repo.or.cz/w/ttfautohint.git
or the latest build is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ttfautohint/

 

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Pacifico and Bevan OpenType Features

On January 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Pacifico is a straightforward informal script font, based loosely on advertising lettering from the 1950′s. Bevan is a reworking of the classic weighty ‘Clarendon’ genre display serif. Both are popular webfonts and extra features are now being added to allow web designers to extend the functionality of the fonts via css opentype feature support. Below [...]

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Oxygen Font Regular – 0.1 Release

On January 14, 2012 · 5 Comments

Oxygen Font 0.1 is now released for testing purposes. The font still needs some tweaking; mainly to metrics, kerning pairs, and diacritic characters, but it should now be fit to fully test as a KDE system font for most European latin languages. The Cyrillic is still not useable, although it’s better than it was.

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Pixel Placement of screen fonts with FontForge

On January 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

A brief FontForge howto on fine tuning kerning and advance width metrics of fonts designed for screen use.

Above is a screenshot of Oxygen font at a point size of 144 pts per em (ppem) at 96dpi in FontForge’s ‘Advance Width Metrics’ window. There is little point editing the metrics of a font [...]

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