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Adding glyphs to font?

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Adding glyphs to font? sophie 17 Nov 01:47
  Adding glyphs to font? Jay Smith 17 Nov 02:14
  Adding glyphs to font? Alexandre Prokoudine 17 Nov 02:18
   Adding glyphs to font? Patrick Horgan 17 Nov 07:15
sophie
2010-11-17 01:47:55 UTC (about 14 years ago)
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Adding glyphs to font?

I am totally stumped! I am making an invitation and trying to ad glyphs to a font (burgues). Anyone have any clue how to do this?

Jay Smith
2010-11-17 02:14:45 UTC (about 14 years ago)

Adding glyphs to font?

On 11/16/2010 08:47 PM, sophie wrote:

I am totally stumped! I am making an invitation and trying to ad glyphs to a font (burgues). Anyone have any clue how to do this?

You probably need a font editing program. That is a sophisticated and tricky area.

I once used a program called FontLab -- I don't know if it still exists (that was back in the Windows 95 era; the authors were Russian and were really terrific). It worked great, but the learning curve was enormous because the subject is really complicated. If you are not already a font expert, you probably need to find another solution than trying to mess with the guts of fonts.

Jay

Alexandre Prokoudine
2010-11-17 02:18:50 UTC (about 14 years ago)

Adding glyphs to font?

On 11/17/10, sophie wrote:

I am totally stumped! I am making an invitation and trying to ad glyphs to a font (burgues). Anyone have any clue how to do this?

http://fontforge.sourceforge.net or some other font editor.

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

Patrick Horgan
2010-11-17 07:15:38 UTC (about 14 years ago)

Adding glyphs to font?

On 11/16/2010 06:18 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

On 11/17/10, sophie wrote:

I am totally stumped! I am making an invitation and trying to ad glyphs to a font (burgues). Anyone have any clue how to do this?

http://fontforge.sourceforge.net or some other font editor.

Fontforge is easy to use. On ubuntu there's a fontforge package. sudo apt-get install fontforge. Once you're running it, go into the help menu and click on overview. It will bring up a page in your browser with an overview and tutorial. I made a font that looked like a 7x5 big pixel old time display;) Silly, yet fun. Anyone can have it if they want.

Patrick